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Stuffit 10
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> The final low-level improvement is faster performance when using the StuffIt X archive format. Allume claims that the "Better" compression method (as opposed to "Faster") can now perform the same compression about 20 percent faster than in previous incarnations.
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My biggest problem with StuffIt is not creating archives (I simply
don't use it for that) but the glacially slow times it takes to
extract archives. This is why I try to avoid StuffIt files as much as
possible, and convert any .sit files I download to dmgs or zips. That
way I have the chore or waiting for the un-compression/extraction only
once.
Admittedly, my machines is a bit long in the tooth now, but I've had
cases where it takes expander 20+ minutes to uncompress a one or two
hundred meg file. Meanwhile, Unrar X will take 2 or 3 minutes to
uncompress a DVD sized archive, max; and zip seems to be even faster.
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