johnsonjeven

New update, great! Verbose is nice, will enable when packing huge files.

Sadly no new features, but improvments good too.

 

 

 

Yes. As i said before, i promote you on our forum a bit. I made blog entry and leave link in my signature. There already ~150 views - not so much with thousands here, but still number.

I still belive Crunch is very userful program for wrighting bios programs.

 

Feedback:

Feedback is poor.

One guy say that this is "magic".

Other guy noticed that he can use Crunch for obfuscation. I think, this is lame, but some paranoid guys only see how everybody wants to steal their code. Maybe, you should make option for this?

Next, on blog entry comments, our famouse admin, who made spawn and world on coords 100500x140300, was upset that Crunch only "changing local names". But then, other good programmer corrected, that it also shortned often used global names.

 

But anyway, i feel like im alone who using your program on our server, heh.

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I have suggestion. Do not know where i should write this - here or in tar topic.

 

Idea was making self-extracting archives, or "installers".

Tar making archives, but i need tar program itself for open it. I can just add crunched Tar uncompresser after a .tar archive for self-extracting it. But also, i still want to compress result qith LZ77 or other compress method for less size.

So, for user it will looks simple - he downloading just 1 file, for example "crunch_installer.lua", and run it. This installer unpacking and put files in their places on computer, wrighting errors if needed.

LZF is conceptually very similar to LZ77. Generally speaking most modern compression algorithms give roughly the same compression, and with regard to the number of cores that you can use at once, it is up to you to decide how many you want to use. Generally speaking (unless you are creating large archives) there is no reason to need more than one though. In addition, with multiple cores doing the compression, the bottleneck may become the hard drive. Legacy zip compression is akin to the Deflate method in 7-zip, and will offer the most compatibility between different compression software.

John