7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
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- #Linux Performance
- #7-Zip
- #File Compression
- 7-Zip 26.01 adds huge pages support on Linux, improving compression speed by about 10% for formats like 7z, XZ, LZMA, and LZMA2.
- New -spod, -spoc, and -spor options control output directory path generation during archive extraction, with different behaviors for path handling.
- The release includes bug fixes and is available for download on GitHub.