So, I was playin around with WinZIP and WinRAR today, trying to understand how those programs work. I mean- I know HOW they work, but I wanted to see which types of files compress the best, and which don’t. It came to no surprise that text documents are the easiest to pack up, since there is so much data redundancy. So, I had a little fun.
I created a 100MB text file filled entirely with whitespace. Then I RAR’d it, and then ZIP’d that. Amazingly enough, I was able to reduce a 100MB file to 222bytes. That’s even less than my minimum sector size (4kb) . Awesome.
Check it out!
Download: Compression Hax
