WINRAR 4.20
is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the
size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files
downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file
format. Changes in RAR compression RAR general compression algorithm is
optimized for better utilization of several processor cores. While some speed gain is possible even in single processor
mode, best results are achieved in multi-core environment. Speed gain
depends on data type and average file size. Several cores are utilized
more efficiently when compressing large files.
WINRAR
4.20 had to increase memory requirements to achieve higher compression
speed. General RAR compression algorithm allocates about 120 MB
comparing to 40 MB in WINRAR 4.20.
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WINRAR 4.20 text compression algorithm cannot utilize several CPU cores
efficiently, so its performance in multiprocessor environment is much
lower than for general algorithm. Also its decompression speed is much
lower than in general algorithm regardless of CPU number. So we decided
to disable the text algorithm by default. If you need maximum possible
compression ratio for plain text data regardless of speed, you can
enable the text compression in "Advanced compression parameter" dialog.
Press "Compression" button on "Advanced" page of archiving dialog to
access it. You can also change this option permanently in default
compression profile; In the command line mode the text compression can be enabled with much switch.
"Fastest" (-m1) compression mode also supports several processor cores now. In 4.11 it could use only a single processor
core. WINRAR 4.20 general decompression algorithm speed is slightly
improved,though not same extent as RAR compression. RAR decompression
is not able to use several processor cores, so its performance does not
depend on a number of cores. Changes in ZIP compression: now ZIP
compression supports several processor cores resulting in noticeably
higher performance in multi-core environment. Single CPU ZIP compression
is also faster than in 4.11; Memory use for ZIP compression is
increased to about 15 MB.
Recovery volume creating and processing
can use several CPU cores resulting in higher speed. Though, typically
hard drive seek speed is a limiting factor for recovery volumes, so this
gain is most noticeable when working with solid state drive. Now the
allowed value for -mt switch is 1 - 32, not 0 - 16 as before. "Find
files" command can search data in 7-Zip archives. Previously "Find files" did not support .7z archive format. Windows 2000 is not supported by WINRAR 4.20 and WINRAR 4.20 self-extracting modules anymore.
"Save
current settings" button in "Advanced SFX options" dialog is now
available only when converting an existing archive to SFX. Options saved
with this button are applied only to convert to SFX operation.
If you create or update SFX archive, only SFX options stored in default compression profile are used. Options saved in "Advanced SFX options" dialog are ignored for these operations.
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