
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.