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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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WHAT IS THE FASTEST APPLICATION 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="peazip-compression-benchmark.html#file_archivers_comparative"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Benchmark
settings: list large archive content</span><br>
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<p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goals</span></big></p>
<ol>
<li>Compare mainstream archive managers, 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).</li>
<li>Identify factors that may influence
archive browsing performances when listing thousands of items is
required.<br>
</li>
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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 22.01</li>
<li>PeaZip 9.5.0<br>
</li>
<li>WinRar 6.11</li>
<li>Windows 10 built-in Compressed Folders</li>
</ul>
<li>Linux Mint 21 x86_64</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for Linux GTK2 9.5.0</li>
<li>PeaZip for Linux Qt5 9.5.0</li>
<li>Gnome Archive Manager<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>macOS 13.6</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for macOS aarch64 9.6.0</li>
<li>PeaZip for macOS x86_64 9.6.0</li>
</ul>
<li>Asahi Linux on aarch64<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>PeaZip for Linux GTK2 aarch64 9.6.0</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>
<br>
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 24000<br>
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Linux: virtual machine over previous hardware.<br>
7-Zip benchmark score 10000<br>
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macOS: 2020 MacBook Air with M1 chip.<br>
7-Zip benchmark score 45000<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>
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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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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="peazip-compression-benchmark.html#file_archivers_comparative"><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 3 tests is reported as time to open the
archive for browsing.<br>
Since the tests took place on different machines for Windows, Linux,
and macOS systems, 7-Zip benchmark score (rounded) is reported for
reference in "Hardware settings" paragraph.<br>
<br>
<big><span style="font-weight: bold;">Caveats</span></big><br>
<ul>
<li>Archives were 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.<br>
</li>
<li>External factors may alter the outcome of the test,
i.e. the system could theoretically delay or stop content listing
operations detecting
high CPU / memory usage, or high temperature, or an anti-malware
software may interfere with the operations,<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><big>Benchmark listing
times
results
(the lower the better)</big><br>
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</span>
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<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">25K<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">250K<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">25K-flat<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">PeaZip
WIN64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">2.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">4.8</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">9.8<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">PeaZip
WIN64 (Fast mode)<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">0.7<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">1.3<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">9,2<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;">0.6<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;">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;">3.3<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">5.7<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;">1.5<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">748.0</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">6.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">PeaZip for
Linux GTK2<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">2.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">4.8<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">9.3<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">PeaZip for
Linux Qt5<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">2.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">4,7<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">3.8<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">Gnome
Archive Manager<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;">5.0<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">1.7<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">PeaZip for
macOS aarch64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">1.1<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">3.4<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">36.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: right;">PeaZip for
macOS x86_64<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">1.6<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">4.4<br>
</td>
<td
style="vertical-align: top; width: 25%; text-align: center;">55.0<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">PeaZip
for
Linux GTK2 aarch64</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">1.8<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">3.2<br>
</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;">5.2<br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><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 and 250K items benchmarks it become evident how well each
application scales in efficiency for listing an increasingly larger
number of items.<br>
<br>
All applications (excluding 7-Zip) took a significant performance hit
increasing items per archive from 10s of thousands up to 100s of
thousands items per archive, with MS Compressed Folders being unable to
complete the 250K test in under 3 minutes (and was consequently
stopped).<br>
<br>
With out-of-the-box configuration (default <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Normal mode</span>), PeaZip shows a
performance trend
similar to WinRar and Gnome Archive manager in handling increasingly
larger archives, but it is slower than both apps and of 7-Zip, which is
the fastest tested application.<br>
<br>
In <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fast mode</span>, PeaZip becomes
almost as fast as
7-Zip in both 25K and 250K tests, significantly faster than other
tested apps.<br>
<br>
<br>
<h3><img alt="fastest app to open large archives"
title="Times to open archives containing increasing number of items"
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 on opening, listing the entire archive content,
not
only the root, which clearly adds a penalty in terms of raw
performances, but as tradeoff it is meant to warn the user of possible
integrity issues in advance, to display useful stats about the archive,
and
to create a treeview representation of the structure of directories
inside
the archive to help browsing.<br>
PeaZip can automatically turn off parts of pre-parsing process in order
to preserve performances, and can completely skip pre-browsing: 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>.<br>
By default PeaZip is in Normal mode, which pre-.parses up to small
archives (in the range of few hundreds thousands items in archive),
while Fast mode has pre-parsing turned off unless listing issues are
auto-detected while opening the archive.<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 displaying a
large number of items at once in the file / archive manager component.<br>
<br>
In this test the best possible advantage is the implementation of a <span
style="font-weight: bold;">virtual list
view</span>, which is probably the key factor in 7-Zip and Gnome
Archive Manager performances for
25K-flat being
almost identical to 25K case, unlike other applications including
PeaZip, which lacks this mechanism.<br>
Swithcing PeaZip to Fast mode does not improve speed much in this
test, as the rendering part is unaffected.<br>
<br>
The second most important key factor in this test is the efficieny of
the underlying
Operating System's <span style="font-weight: bold;">widget set</span>
in rendering the list view items.<br>
This
become evident with PeaZip, which uses different widget sets on
Windows,
Linux, and macOS, with the Linux versions being significantly faster
than Windows and macOS ones - despising
the Linux test machine being by far the slowest one
accordingly to the
7-Zip benchmark ratings.<br>
On Linux, Qt5 widget set significantly outperforms GTK2 and provides a
surprisingly good result, as faster application not implementing a
virtual treeview.<br>
On macOS, the rendering times were noticeably slower than on Linux and
Windows, either because Lazarus (the IDE using to build PeaZip) is
less mature on this platform or because of performances of Cocoa widget
set functions involved.<br>
The difference is even more evident when comparing the app versions
running on macOS/Cocoa aarch64, and on Asahi Linux/GTK2 arrch64, with
the latter verion being about 7x faster than the macOS one in this
specifc UI-intensive test.<br>
<br>
<h3><img alt="what is the fastest app to open zip files"
title="Display thousands of files in archive"
src="archive-containing-thousands-files.png"
style="width: 740px; height: 380px;"></h3>
<br>
<br>
<h3><big><big><big><a style="font-weight: bold;"
name="fastest_archive_opener"></a><a
href="peazip-compression-benchmark.html#file_archivers_comparative"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusions:
what is the fastest application 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 slower than better optimized apps as WinRar
and Gnome Archive Manager, due to a time-consuming full archive
pre-parsing analysis stage
meant to detect issues and provide information about
the archive.<br>
However, its shows a comparable capability in scaling performances for
opening in reasonable times archives in the range of 10s thousands to
100s thousands of items.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Optimize PeaZip for
browsing large archives</span><br>
PeaZip<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span
style="font-weight: bold;">in </span>Fast mode</span>
is almost as fast as 7-Zip, and
significantly faster than any of the other tested apps, unless it is
needed to
display many thousands of items at once in the GUI.<br>
Lacking a virtual
list view
implementation it is inherently limited by the efficiency of
the underlying OS widget set; in this case Qt5 widgetset provides the
best performances for PeaZip, being even faster than WinRar and Windows
Compressed Folders in this test.<br>
<br>
<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, and it has comparable performances with PeaZip for
Linux - faster on 25K archive, slower on 250K archive, fasterto
represent a very large number of items at once in the GUI.<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 25%
to 40% faster performances.<br>
<br>
<h3 style="font-weight: bold;">macOS vs Linux performances
on Apple Silicon</h3>
The first two benchmarks, opening 25K items archive and 250K items
archive, which mostrly rely on app's own efficiency, shows quite
siimilar results, with macOS aarch64 version being faster on the
smaller archive and the Linux aarch64 scaling better on the larger
archive.<br>
The last benchmark, which rely heavily on widget-set ability to render
in the UI a 25K items "flat" archive, shows a clear advantage for the
Linux/GTK2 version which is about 7 times faster than the macOS/Cocoa
version, despising the GTK2 widegt set not being the fast one available
on Linux platform.<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>
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