Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by chipotle_coyote on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:17PM (#23606812)

I believe it is what the poster you are replying to would call "a specific curated use case."

(Semi-seriously, I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip, although I'm sure they're out there. For the record, I just unzipped a 120M archive on both my 2020 Core i7 MacBook Air and my 2018 (last-gen) iPad Pro and as near as I can tell the iPad was faster actually extracting the files, but had an extra second or so of overhead from the UI.)

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ac29 on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:44PM (#23607154)

> I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip

7zip is an implementation of LZMA, like xz. So, different names and file format details, but essentially the same algorithm.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by user5994461 on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:01PM (#23607375)

Correct. 7zip is a LZMA compressor. The common equivalent command line tool on Linux is xz.

Linux distributions have been using xz compression for all packages (replacing gzip). So to the question of how relevant is xz/lzma/7zip performance to day to day task, is it's a lot relevant.

The successor will probably be zstd in the coming years. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-3...

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by rjsw on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:47PM (#23608789)

You can find a 7zip for UNIX here [1].

[1] http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/

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