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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by gregschlom on Thursday March 12, 2015 @09:57AM (#9190783)
>(no need for WinZip or WinRAR - think about it!)

I'd be surprised if compressor utilities running through Cygwin's emulation layer could achieve the same speed as a native tool. 7-zip is an open source tool that will handle all your compression / decompression needs on Windows (including rar, gz, many self-extracting exes, and a bunch of very exotic formats). You should really give it a try if you're compressing or decompressing large archives on Windows.

http://www.7-zip.org/

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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by barrkel on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:59AM (#9191169)
Cygwin should only slow down syscalls. Syscalls should not be a significant fraction of the running time of compression software.
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Re:Foreign Linux: Run Linux binaries on Windows without driv... by Perseids on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:20AM (#9190938)
> I'd be surprised if compressor utilities running through Cygwin's emulation layer could achieve the same speed as a native tool.

Why do you think so? The emulation layer should only be relevant for the IO part of the compressors and IO is usually severely limited by the harddisk anyway.

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