phllp_w
17th June 2004 20:46 UTC

Compression
What is the highest compression in NSIS? I don't care about the (de)compression time, just the compression ratio.

Thanks! ;)

zimsms
17th June 2004 20:57 UTC

In most cases LZMA.

JamesF1
17th June 2004 21:24 UTC

I am yet to find a case where LZMA is not the highest compression :)

phllp_w
18th June 2004 00:01 UTC

Yeah, I've thought so too, but wanted your opinion. Thank you!

zimsms
18th June 2004 13:10 UTC

Actually I find bzip2 better for compression if your just compressing straight text files. If you need to compress binaries then LZMA always comes out on top.

JamesF1
18th June 2004 19:03 UTC

But you don't make installers for text files :)

phllp_w
19th June 2004 13:21 UTC

Yes, I don't think anyone does, lol... :)