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href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bulat Ziganshin</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">0.666<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-b68cc993e174508dcf5fe80dc6381679eb2e7345-v18_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-b68cc993e174508dcf5fe80dc6381679eb2e7345-v18-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3495962?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span> / 20 May 2010</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Beta" title="Software release life cycle">Preview release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">0.60 RC<sup id="cite_ref-wikidata-be989981ed3aab5167fc0805ada464a68b7aeb98-v18_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wikidata-be989981ed3aab5167fc0805ada464a68b7aeb98-v18-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3495962?uselang=en#P348" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span> / 5 October 2009</div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a 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id="cite_ref-freearc-license_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freearc-license-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161118232624/http://freearc.org/">freearc.org</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archived 2016-11-18)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>FreeArc</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> high-performance <a href="/wiki/File_archiver" title="File archiver">file archiver</a> developed by Bulat Ziganshin. The project is presumably discontinued, since no information has been released by the developers since 2016 and the official website is down. </p><p>A "FreeArc Next" version is under development, with version FA 0.11 released in October 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-next_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-next-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "Next" version supports 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux and includes <a href="/wiki/Zstandard" class="mw-redirect" title="Zstandard">Zstandard</a> support.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Algorithms">Algorithms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Algorithms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>FreeArc uses <a href="/wiki/LZMA" class="mw-redirect" title="LZMA">LZMA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prediction_by_partial_matching" title="Prediction by partial matching">prediction by partial matching</a>, TrueAudio, Tornado and <a href="/w/index.php?title=GRzip&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="GRzip (page does not exist)">GRzip</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> algorithms with automatic switching by file type. Additionally, it uses filters to further improve compression, including REP (finds repetitions at separations up to 1gb), DICT (dictionary replacements for text), DELTA (improves compression of tables in binary data), BCJ (executables preproccesor) and LZP (removes repetitions in text).<sup id="cite_ref-tomshardware_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tomshardware-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Benchmarks">Benchmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Benchmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archive_size">Archive size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archive size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2010 <a href="/wiki/Tom%27s_Hardware" title="Tom's Hardware">Tom's Hardware</a> benchmarks comparing it to the other popular archivers, FreeArc narrowly outperformed <a href="/wiki/WinZip" title="WinZip">WinZip</a>, <a href="/wiki/7-Zip" title="7-Zip">7-Zip</a>, and <a href="/wiki/WinRAR" title="WinRAR">WinRAR</a> in its "best compression" mode. In the "default compression" tests, it lost to 7-Zip's <a href="/wiki/LZMA2" class="mw-redirect" title="LZMA2">LZMA2</a>, but still compressed better than WinRAR and WinZip.<sup id="cite_ref-tom2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tom2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speed">Speed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Speed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the same Tom's Hardware tests, FreeArc was outpaced at default settings by 7zip's LZMA2 default compression, and also by WinRAR, even at its best compression settings. FreeArc's compression at its best settings was slower than both 7zip and WinRAR, but still came ahead of WinZip.<sup id="cite_ref-tom2_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tom2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Efficiency">Efficiency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Efficiency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a metric devised by Werner Bergmans of <a href="/wiki/Maximum_Compression_Benchmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximum Compression Benchmark">Maximum Compression Benchmark</a>, FreeArc compression is more efficient than programs for classic formats like <a href="/wiki/Compress" class="mw-redirect" title="Compress">.Z</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Welch" class="mw-redirect" title="Lempel-Ziv-Welch">LZW</a>), <a href="/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)" title="ZIP (file format)">.zip</a> (<a href="/wiki/DEFLATE" class="mw-redirect" title="DEFLATE">Deflate</a>), <a href="/wiki/Gzip" title="Gzip">.gz</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bzip2" title="Bzip2">bzip2</a>. (The scoring formula used in this non-public test, </p><p><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-display mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math display="block" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\text{score}}_{X}={\text{time}}_{X}\times 2^{10\cdot \left({\frac {{\text{size}}_{X}}{{\text{size}}_{\text{TOP}}}}-1\right)}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>score</mtext> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>X</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>time</mtext> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>X</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>×</mo> <msup> <mn>2</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>10</mn> <mo>⋅</mo> <mrow> <mo>(</mo> <mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>size</mtext> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>X</mi> </mrow> </msub> <msub> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>size</mtext> </mrow> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mtext>TOP</mtext> </mrow> </msub> </mfrac> </mrow> <mo>−</mo> <mn>1</mn> </mrow> <mo>)</mo> </mrow> </mrow> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\text{score}}_{X}={\text{time}}_{X}\times 2^{10\cdot \left({\frac {{\text{size}}_{X}}{{\text{size}}_{\text{TOP}}}}-1\right)}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/eb0cc30a1066d582f7e75215e50c809b85df4128" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-display mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:32.756ex; height:5.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\text{score}}_{X}={\text{time}}_{X}\times 2^{10\cdot \left({\frac {{\text{size}}_{X}}{{\text{size}}_{\text{TOP}}}}-1\right)}}"></span> </p><p>multiplies the sum of compression and decompression times by a factor that exponentially grades the ratio of archive sizes achieved by the program under test relative to the best known archive size for that data set.) As of November 2010, FreeArc is the top program in this benchmark, followed by NanoZip, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Block-sorting_compressor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Block-sorting compressor (page does not exist)">bsc</a> and WinRAR. It works faster than WinRAR and 7zip.<sup id="cite_ref-golem_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-golem-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title" style="padding-bottom:0.15em;">freearc</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">Filename extension</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><div class="monospaced"> <code>.arc</code></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Media_type" title="Media type">Internet media type</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><div class="monospaced"> <code>application/x-freearc</code></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Developed by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;">Bulat Ziganshin</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Type of format</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.35em;"><a href="/wiki/Data_compression" title="Data compression">Data compression</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Like <a href="/wiki/RAR_(file_format)" title="RAR (file format)">RAR</a> and <a href="/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)" title="ZIP (file format)">ZIP</a> it is an archiver, not just a data compressor like <a href="/wiki/Gzip" title="Gzip">gzip</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bzip2" title="Bzip2">bzip2</a>. Initially it supported only its own archive format, normally identified by the <code>.arc</code> file name extension, incompatible with others;<sup id="cite_ref-tomshardware_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tomshardware-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> there is no relationship with other <a href="/wiki/.arc" class="mw-redirect" title=".arc">.arc</a> formats. More recently,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (June 2016)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> decompression support for other archive types was added, including zip, rar, and <a href="/wiki/7z" title="7z">7z</a>. FreeArc has both a command line interface and a <a href="/wiki/GUI" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI">GUI</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-golem_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-golem-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other features include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solid_compression" title="Solid compression">Solid compression</a> with "smart updates" which avoid recompression when possible</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard" title="Advanced Encryption Standard">AES</a>/<a href="/wiki/Blowfish_(cipher)" title="Blowfish (cipher)">Blowfish</a>/<a href="/wiki/Twofish" title="Twofish">Twofish</a>/<a href="/wiki/Serpent_(cipher)" title="Serpent (cipher)">Serpent</a> encryption,<sup id="cite_ref-tomshardware_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tomshardware-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including chaining of encryption algorithms</li> <li>FAR and Total Commander plug-ins</li> <li>Ability to create <a href="/wiki/Self-extracting_archive" title="Self-extracting archive">self-extracting archives</a> and installers</li> <li>Archive protection and recovery layer using <a href="/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction" title="Reed–Solomon error correction">Reed–Solomon error correction</a> with user-defined size (for example, recovery over Internet being 0.1%, while default is autosize 1-4%).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Supported_platforms">Supported platforms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Supported platforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Windows <a href="/wiki/Binary_file" title="Binary file">binaries</a> are available from the developer. There is no <a href="/wiki/64-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="64-bit">64-bit</a> variant of version 0.666,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but FA 0.11 supported both 32- and 64-bit systems.<sup id="cite_ref-next_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-next-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="FreeArc_Next">FreeArc Next</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FreeArc&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: FreeArc Next"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2016 the first public release of FreeArc Next was released.<sup id="cite_ref-next_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-next-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is currently available only as a <a href="/wiki/Command-line_interface" title="Command-line interface">CLI application</a> for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux platforms. 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navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bzip2" title="Bzip2">bzip2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compress_(software)" title="Compress (software)">compress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gzip" title="Gzip">gzip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lzip" title="Lzip">lzip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lzop" title="Lzop">lzop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pack_(software)" title="Pack (software)">pack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rzip" title="Rzip">rzip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snappy_(compression)" title="Snappy (compression)">Snappy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XZ_Utils" title="XZ Utils">XZ Utils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zstd" title="Zstd">zstd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/Executable_compression" title="Executable compression">For code</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/UPX" title="UPX">UPX</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Data_compression#Audio" title="Data compression">Audio<br /> compression</a><br /> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats" title="Comparison of audio coding formats">comparison</a>)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px"><a href="/wiki/Lossy_compression" title="Lossy compression">Lossy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding" title="Advanced Audio Coding">AAC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fraunhofer_FDK_AAC" title="Fraunhofer 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