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Could KGB Archiver Be the Best Compression Tool Available? Or Just the Slowest? (howtogeek.com)
1 points by hamid914 2807 days ago
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A 5-year-old article about program that's been abandoned for over a decade.

The only resource you need for compression comparison is http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

The author of that website, incidentally, started the PAQ algorithm that KGB archiver uses.