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<p><a href="#time_to_open_zip_file">BENCHMARK
SETTINGS: LIST LARGE ARCHIVE CONTENT<br>
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<p><a href="#time_to_list_archive_content">OPEN LARGE
ARCHIVE
TEST RESULTS<br>
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<p><a href="#fastest_archive_opener">CONCLUSIONS:
WHAT IS THE FASTEST APP FOR BROWSING ARCHIVES?<br>
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<h2><big><big><big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
name="time_to_open_zip_file"></a><a href="#fastest_zip_opener"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Benchmark
settings: list large archive content</span><br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">
<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goals</span></big>
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</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evaluate <span
style="font-weight: bold;">GUI frontend responsiveness under heavy
workload.</span></span><br>
</p>
<p>Compare mainstream archive manager apps,
on
multiple Operating Systems, in terms of times needed to open archives
containing a very large number of files and folders (in the range of
several thousands)<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>. <br>
</p>
<p>Identify factors that may influence
archive browsing performances when listing thousands of items.<br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">
<h3><span style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Software
settings</big><br>
</span></h3>
<ul>
<li>Windows 10 64 bit using 64 bit versions
of:</li>
<ul>
<li>7-Zip 25.00</li>
<li>PeaZip 11.0.0<br>
</li>
<li>WinRar 7.11</li>
<li>WinZip 76.9<br>
</li>
<li>Windows 10 built-in Compressed Folders</li>
</ul>
<li>Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS x86_64</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for Linux GTK2 11.0.0</li>
<li>PeaZip for Linux Qt6 11.0.0</li>
<li>Gnome Archive Manager<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>macOS 15.5</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for macOS aarch64 11.0.0</li>
<li>PeaZip for macOS x86_64 11.0.0</li>
</ul>
<li>Asahi Linux on aarch64<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for Linux GTK2 aarch64 11.0.0</li>
</ul>
</ul>
All applications are tested using default,
out-of-the-box configuration unless specified otherwise. </td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);">
<h4><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hardware
settings</span></big></h4>
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Windows: Notebook with Intel Core i7-8565U CPU, 4
physical cores with hyper-threading (8 logical cores), 8 GB RAM<br>
System disk 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD, NTFS filesystem.<br>
7-Zip benchmark score 23500<br>
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Linux: virtual machine over previous hardware.<br>
7-Zip benchmark score 8500<br>
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macOS: 2020 MacBook Air with M1 chip.<br>
7-Zip benchmark score 46000<br>
This machine runs both macOS and Asahi Linux aarch64 benchmarks<br>
<br>
Since very different technologies are employed, 7-Zip benchmark score
is provided as reference, albeit it is mainly correlated with CPU
performances.<br>
The reference machines can be consider entry level systems due to
limted specs for today's standards.<br>
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style="background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 100%; text-align: left;"
border="0" cellpadding="24" cellspacing="1">
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"> <big><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Input data</span></big><br>
<br>
Subject of the benchmark are 3 archives in <a
href="zip-file-format.html">ZIP
format</a>,
default compression level, no encryption, containing several small
files of mixed types - in the range of 10s of thousands and 100s of
thousands items.<br>
<br>
As content for the ZIP archives it was provided, multiple times, a
directory containing:<br>
1x PeaZip source package <br>
3x PeaZip translations package<br>
totaling about 1000 items, approximately 93% files and 7% directories.<br>
<br>
Archive "25K" contains 25 K items, 225 MB in size<br>
Archive "250K" contains 250 K items, 2.25 GB in size<br>
Archive "25-flat" contains 25 K items, all of them in the root of the
archive, 225 MB
in size<br>
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border="0" cellpadding="48" cellspacing="0">
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style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: top;">
<h2><big><big><big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
name="time_to_list_archive_content"></a><a href="#fastest_zip_opener"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Open
large archive test results</span><br>
</a></big></big></big></h2>
<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Benchmark methods</span></big><br>
<br>
Benchmark
input archives are saved in a fast SSD system disk, and opened by the
tested applications - which are already started.<br>
A median time in seconds over 5 tests is reported as time to open the
archive for browsing.<br>
Since the tests are conducted on different machines for Windows, Linux,
and macOS systems, 7-Zip benchmark score for each system (rounded) is
reported for
reference in "Hardware settings" paragraph.<br>
<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Caveats</span></big><br>
<ul>
<li>Archives are purposely tested on a fast local SSD
drive to put the focus of the benchmark on the efficiency of the tested
utilities: a slow disk or, worse, a remote disk over a slow connection,
will degrade the performances of all applications, adding overhead
time to access the data, the overhead being correlated with the size of
the archive and the speed of the unit.</li>
<li>On
some systems, if a large input file is not cached, the first operation
on the file (in the case of this benchmark, to read the file for
browsing) will take a longer time than the next iterations of the
operation, when the file is cached in memory allowing a significantly
faster access.<br>
</li>
<li>External factors may alter the outcome of the test,
some common variables - which has been avoided when running the
reference becnchmark tests - may be for example:<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>the system could delay or stop operations detecting<span
style="font-weight: bold;"> high CPU usage, high memory usage, or high
temperature</span> - do not run the benchmarks on inadequate hardware
or in a very hot environment<br>
</li>
<li>(Linux, mainly) startup of apps may be delayed if
the system uses a <span style="font-weight: bold;">different widgetset</span>,
and consequently relevant libraries needs to be loaded on demand</li>
<li>(Linux, mainly) startup of apps may be delayed if
the apps are running in <span style="font-weight: bold;">containerized
environments</span> and the runtime needs to be loaded on demand<br>
</li>
<li>(Windows, mainly) startup of apps may be delayed
due to <span style="font-weight: bold;">queries for mounted units and
mapped network resources</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>
- can be solved identifying slow resources, which in turn may more
widely benefit the system performances<br>
</li>
<li>(Windows, mainly) <span style="font-weight: bold;">anti-malware
software may interfere</span> delaying the apps for inspection before
execution</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></big><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Benchmark listing
times
results
(the lower the better)</big><br>
<br>
</span>
<table style="width: 100%; text-align: left;" border="0"
cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%;"><br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">25K<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">250K<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">25K-flat<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">PeaZip
WIN64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">0.6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">3.1</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1.6<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">PeaZip
WIN64 (Fast mode)<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">0.3<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">7-Zip<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">0.3<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">0.8<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">0.6<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">WinRar<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">0.7<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">4.1<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">1.8<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">WinZip<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">5.4<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">43.0<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">4.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">MS
Compressed Folders<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">1.2<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">750.0</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">3.7<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">PeaZip
for
Linux GTK2<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">0.9<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">2.8<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">11.5<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">PeaZip
for
Linux Qt6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">0.8<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">2.9<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">2.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">Gnome
Archive Manager<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">0.9<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">5.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">1.4<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">PeaZip
for
macOS aarch64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">0.4<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">2.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">1.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">PeaZip
for
macOS x86_64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">0.6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">2.7<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">1.5<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">PeaZip
for
Linux GTK2 aarch64</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">0,6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">1.8<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">3.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
Time in seconds (lower better) to complete each benchmark. </span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
<br>
<big>Performances opening archives containing an
increasingly large number
of items</big><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>While up to
a few thousands items per archive the time needed to open the archive
is
barely noticeable, for any of the tested apps on a modern machine,
with the 25K items and 250K items benchmarks it become evident how well
each
application scales in efficiency for listing an increasingly larger
number of items, in the range of tens of thousands to hundreds of
thousands files (and folders) in archive.<br>
<br>
At 25K items only WinZip takes a noticeable delay, resulting the
slowest
app in this test.<br>
<br>
At 250K items all applications takes a significant performance hit,
with
opposite extremes being 7-Zip
completing the 250K items test in one second and MS Compressed Folders
completing the same test in over 12 minutes.<br>
<br>
With out-of-the-box configuration (default <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Normal mode</span>), PeaZip shows a
performances profile similar or slightly better than WinRar and Gnome
Archive Manager (with significantly better performances on 250K items
archives), but it is slower than 7-Zip which is
the fastest application tested in this benchmark.<br>
<br>
Once set in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fast mode</span> (which
is available on all platforms: BSD, macOS, Linux, and Windows), PeaZip
becomes
significantly faster than WinRar and Gnome Archive Manager, and almost
as fast as
7-Zip, which is still the fastes app tested.<br>
<br>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img
alt="fastest app to open large archives"
title="Times to open archives containing increasing number of items LOWER BETTER"
src="open-large-archives.png" style="width: 740px; height: 380px;"></h3>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pre-parsing analysis of
archive content with PeaZip</span><br>
<br>
PeaZip performs a comprehensive <span style="font-weight: bold;">pre-parsing</span>
analysis of the archive content on opening, listing the entire archive
content (not
only the root level), which clearly adds a penalty in terms of raw
performances.<br>
As tradeoff, this step is meant:<br>
<ol>
<li>to warn the user of possible
archive <span style="font-weight: bold;">content integrity</span>
issues in advance of starting any operation
on archived data<br>
</li>
<li>to <span style="font-weight: bold;">reconcile
inconsistencies, omissions, and errors /
corruption in archive's TOC</span> in order to be able to create an
usable
representation of the content for the file browser (and additionally a
treeview representation of the structure of directories
inside
the archive)</li>
<li>to <span style="font-weight: bold;">display
comprehensive stats about the archive
content</span> (size, numberof files, folders, compression ratio,
content of
each single directory in archive...)<br>
</li>
</ol>
PeaZip can automatically turn off parts of pre-parsing process in order
to enhance performances, and can even completely skip pre-browsing.<br>
This
behavior can be set in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Options >
Settings, Browser optimization</span> in the <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Performance group</span>, the default
performance optimization profile being Normal mode, and the fastest
recommended profile being Fast mode.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
Why does PeaZip is not set in Fast mode by default?</span><br>
<br>
PeaZip is set in Normal mode by default, which pre-parses archives up
to the range of 256K items,
while Fast mode has pre-parsing turned off unless listing issues are
auto-detected while opening the archive.<br>
The issue is that not all possible problems (either due to casual data
corruption, tampering, or out-of-standard archivers) can be
automatically detected without a thorough analysis.<br>
While Fast mode is definitely faster (and capable of identifying most
of the possible common issues), it is not the default mode, as <span
style="font-weight: bold;">thoroughly
checking data integrity is a foremost priority for the PeaZip project</span>.<br>
<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Performances
rendering a
large number of items in the archive browser</span></big><br>
<br>
25K-flat test shows mainly the efficiency in <span
style="font-weight: bold;">displaying a
large number of items at once</span> in the file / archive manager
component,
i.e. a folder or a search filter containing many thousands files.<br>
<br>
In this test the key advantage is the implementation of a <span
style="font-weight: bold;">virtual list
view</span>, which was implemeted in the PeaZip file manager back in
10.6.0 relese,
improving
performances to levels comparable to fast apps like
WinRar and Gnome Archive Manager, while 7-Zip remains the fastest
application also in this benchmark.<br>
<br>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><img
alt="speed listing thousands of files in archive"
title="Time to render 25K items in the file manager LOWER BETTER"
src="archive-containing-thousands-files.png"
style="width: 740px; height: 380px;"></h4>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">How does PeaZip list view
rendering speed compares on different widgetsets?</span><br>
<br>
Virtual list view efficiency depends on the widgtset, with PeaZip
file manager showing over 6x performances enhancements on Windows
compared to
non-virtual list view, over 30x on macOS (Cocoa is the slowest
widgetset in
non-virtual mode), nearly 2x on Qt6 (fastest widgetset in non-virtual
mode), while with GTK2 widgetset there are few benefits.<br>
<div style="text-align: center;"><br>
</div>
<table style="width: 75%; text-align: left;" border="0"
cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%;"><br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Virtual<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Non-virtual<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right;">PeaZip
Win64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1.6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center;">9.4<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right;">PeaZip
(Fast mode)</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1.2<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center;">9.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">PeaZip
GTK2</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">11.9</span><br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">9.3<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">PeaZip
Qt6</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">2.1<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">3.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">PeaZip
aarch64</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">1.1<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">36.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">PeaZip
x86_64</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">1.5<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">59.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: right; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">PeaZip
aarch64 Linux GTK2</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">3.2</span><br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 33%; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">4.1<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
Time in seconds to compete
the 25K-flat test (lower better) on different widgetsets. </span><br
style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">In bold the time with
out-of-the-box settings of PeaZip<br>
<br>
</span>Virtual mode can be set from Option
> Settings, Performances group: on, off, or over a fixed amount of
items (4K, 8K, 16K) displayed at once.<br>
Default value varies on different widgetsets, as the performance impact
is differnt on each case: 4K items for macOS, 8K for WIN32/WIN64, 16K
for GTK2/3 and Qt6.<br>
<br>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><img
alt="speed of file manager in different widgetsets GTK, QT, WIN, Cocoa"
title="Virtual list view vs Non-virtual LOWER BETTER"
src="virtual-non-virtual-file-manager.png"
style="width: 740px; height: 380px;"></h4>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></big><br>
<br>
<h3><big><big><big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
name="fastest_archive_opener"></a><a href="#fastest_zip_opener"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions:
what is the fastest app for browsing archives?</span><br>
</a></big></big></big></h3>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fastest application to
browse large archives</span><br>
7-Zip is the fastest application to open / browse large archives in all
tests.<br>
Out-of-the-box, PeaZip is comparable or better than fast apps like
WinRar
and Gnome Archive Manager, and can be made nearly as fast as 7-Zip
using the Fast mode setting.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Performances comparison of
integrated
system utilities</span><br>
As for system utilities, Gnome Archive Manager clearly surpasses MS
Compressed Folders in efficiency, and it has comparable performances
with PeaZip for
Linux, even if it is significantly slower on 250K items test (very
large
archives).<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Performances on different
widgetset</span><br>
As expected. displaying many thousands of items at once is the task in
which PeaZip is most influenced by the choice of a specific widgetset,
either with list view in virtual and in non-virtual mode.<br>
Qt6 is the fastest widgetset in non-virtual mode, while Cocoa is the
slowest.<br>
Virtual mode brings to all widgetsets a great performances boost, with
possible exception of GTK2 (faster in aarch64 test, slower in x86_64
one); Qt6 speed gain in virtual mode is relatively small, being this
widgetset the fastest in non-virtual mode by a wide margin.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Performances on Apple
Silicon vs Intel</span><br>
On an M1 Apple Silicon machine, the native macOS aarch64 build
consistently performed better than the x86_64 build, ranging from 30%
to 50% faster performances.<br>
<br>
<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">macOS vs Asahi Linux on
Apple Silicon</h3>
Performances in 25K items and 250K items benchmarks are quite similar
(the latter test showing an advantage for Asahi Linux over macOS),
while the 25K-flat test shows an advantage for macOS over Asahi due the
outdated GTK2 widgetset which PeaZip uses on the latter OS.<br>
In non-virtual mode, however, the GTK2 widgetset is significantly
faster than Cocoa, completing the 25K-flat test in 4.3 seconds vs over
half a minute.<br>
<br>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">Synopsis: Open large archives
benchmark. What is the fastest application to open large archives?
Comparison of archive browsing speed with 7-Zip, PeaZip, and WinRar.
Archive listing benchmark methods, time to open results, comparative of
speed of archive manager utilities for browsing archives containing
thousands of files and folders. Speed test on Windows, Linux, and macOS
aarch64 and Intel.</p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">Topics: PeaZip vs 7-Zip vs
WinRar list large archive content benchmark, which is the fastest
application<br>
</p>
<p style="font-weight: bold;">PeaZip > Compression
benchmark > Open large archives benchmark<br>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>