Quote:
Originally Posted by daxb
The main reason for LHA is IMO that it is used for Aminet archives. I think LHA is still fine today, although it is not the best archiver. Small packed size isn't that important like 25 years ago. Nowadays, in my opinion fast decompress time is the main argument against LHA.
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Some numbers on this, testing with the contents of the Workbench 3.1 diskette on an A1200 with fastmem:
LZX: 45 seconds to compress to 370 KB, 10 seconds to decompress
LHA: 80 seconds to compress to 435 KB, 16 seconds to decompress