Can you include .3MF to the list of re-compressible formats?

[spwolf]

Customer feedback is crucial… so yes, we will have to do 64bit version simply because you guys want it and you are the customers afterall.

Gan email us at support at conexware dot com… I wonder if PA 2011 is at least noticably faster at startup.

[spwolf]

(ie we will send you beta)

[drteeth]

@gan

I also understand that there are advantages to using 32 bit apps in a 64 bit OS.

DrT

[davidsplash]

would like to say stick with 32 bit as you can use this n linux with the windows emulator and most importantly you can use this in reactos operating system

[gan]

I have not been using Powerarchiver for several years for several reasons and figured i should check out the latest release now to see if moving back to powerarchiver would be an option. As far as i can see there are still no 64bit version, is that correct?

I would say that 64bit is no longer the future, but it’s the standard today. I know that some still claim there is no advantage with 64bit, but seems like only those that do not have a 64bit version claim such a thing. All the companies that released 64bit can show benchmarks that show it’s basically faster and better. Some examples are Winrar, Winzip, 7zip, Emeditor and Ultraedit. Some of these are text editors, but Ultraedit is one example that said we do not need 64bit because there is no advantage until they released a 64bit version and it turns out there are several benefits and it’s without doubt faster. If someone claim that 32bit is better it’s strange since everyone else that released 64bit versions already proved the opposite. So why should a single company get another result, is there something wrong with the code or the benchmark or something else?

So did i just miss the 64bit version or do powerarchiver still do not have a 64bit version? Even Winzip created a 64bit version a long time ago.

[drteeth]

@ gan

That is a very interesting post. I would say that 64 bit is only faster in certain situations and it would be expected that those making 64 bit versions would produce benchmark results that show it. If 64 bit is faster in normal use, I would say that one would not notice it without a stop-watch.

[gan]

@drteeth

Well i cannot say for sure if they pick the benchmarks that gives the best results for 64bit, but I cannot really see why WinRAR should try to tell everyone 64bit is better since they got both a 32 and 64bit edition. The same goes for Winzip. They measure important stuff like how long it takes to compress and decompress which is the main features of such a program. Ultraedit been getting a lot of complaints because certain operations are slow as well as startup. The 64bit are faster to start and most of these operations now goes faster. If they could make the 32 bit version just as fast then why not since they got both. Emeditor which is my favorite text editor been having a 64bit version for a long time already and it’s been 100% unicode compliant for ages. So they always been in front of the competition which is great for customers. Why the 64bit version are faster in general i don´t know, but i do not have many 32 bits applications left. Do anyone still use a 32 bits OS with the memory limitations that exists in a 32 bit OS? My guess is that a very high percentage of the Windows users that use Windows 7 or newer use the 64 bit edition. OS X is 64 bit and i would be surprised if not most Linux users choose 64 bit as well.

I think it’s time for Powerarchiver to realize that the world is moving on and that 64 bit is no longer the future……it’s now. Seems like the competitors are there so when should PA take the next step as well.

-gan

[spwolf]

It probably depends on application and what it does… PA right now probably has the fastest zip engine overall, as tested by various sites… thats with super optimized compression library thats faster than WinZIP’s that is also very fast, has 64bit and even has support for AMD GPU’s, however it is still slower than ours.

It is definitely good marketing though, with PA 2016 coming up, we can finally do 64bit version from technology perspective question is just of priorities since performance measured is little bit faster for compression and a bit slower for extraction. It would take us few months to transfer our zip engine and optimize it so it doesnt end up slower, which would suck… so after 2016, it would be just a question of priorities.

Thanks for updating the thread though, it was fun reading it all over again!

[gan]

@spwolf

Thank you for your reply. It will be exciting to see the future version of PA and if 64 bit will be a reality :)

-gan

[rahul kumar]

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