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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get from tar.gz.

    That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.

    RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.