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Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

Hi everyone, Over the past few days, I’ve revisited my old paq8px_script.py Python script that I wrote in order to compress files using the paq8px compressor. This script builds a file list that we can feed to paq8px so that it can compress multiple files and create an archive. I wrote an introductory post of this project back in 2018. An update I did in 2020 was to add multithreaded compression by making a paq8px archive per file. This is…

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PAQCompress v0.3.49 has been released

PAQCompress v0.3.49 has been released

Hi everyone, On the weekend, I released PAQCompress v0.3.49: This release has the following changes: Added paq8sk: v2, v5, v7, v9, v10, v13, v14, v15, v18, v19, v22, v23, v25, v26. Added paq8px v187fix1, fix2, fix3. Compression level improvements when changing between compression series. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 4

PAQCompress v0.3.47 has been released

PAQCompress v0.3.47 has been released

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.47: This release fixes the following issues: Fixes an issue where the software would not work if its location contained spaces and “Show Command Prompt” was checked. Fixes Batch script generation if the software was placed on a location with spaces. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 9

PAQ8PX ported to ARM processors

PAQ8PX ported to ARM processors

Hi everyone, Over the past few days, I worked on porting the PAQ8PX compressor for ARM CPUs. Initially, it would not compile because it relied on some SSE instructions that are not available on ARM. This required porting some code to equivalent functions in this architecture. Once this was done, paq8px happily compiled and ran on the Snapdragon 845 and 865 CPU’s from my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and S20 Ultra smartphones: I tested it using the Termux app running Ubuntu…

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