7.0 ZIP
Opens ALL types of zip files
7z is a new archive format, providing high compression ratio.
The main features of the 7z format:
- Open architecture
- High compression ratio
- Strong AES-256 encryption
- Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method
- Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB
- Unicode file names
- Solid compressing
- Archive headers compressing
7z has open architecture, so it can support any new compression methods.
Now the following methods are integrated into 7z :
| LZMA | Improved and optimisedversion of LZ77 algorithm |
| PPMD | Dmitry Shkarin's PPMdH with small changes |
| BCJ | Converter for 32-bit x86 executables |
| BCJ2 | Converter for 32-bit x86 executables |
| BZip2 | Standard BWT algorithm |
| Deflate | Standard LZ77-based algorithm |
LZMA is the default and general compression method of 7z format. The main features of the LZMA method:
- High compression ratio
- Variable dictionary size (up to 4 GB)
- Compressing speed: about 1 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU
- Decompressing speed: about 10-20 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU
- Small memory requirements for decompressing (depend from dictionary size)
- Small code size for decompressing: about 5 KB
- Supporting multi-threading and P4's hyper-threading
The LZMA compression algorithm is very suitable for embedded applications. If you want to use LZMA code, you can ask for consultations, custom code programming, and required developer licenses at