Phoronix Article
7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
https://www.phoronix.com/news/7-Zip-26.01
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Notable points in 7-Zip 26.01, released on Monday, include support for huge pages on Linux and new options related to the path generation mode of the output directory when extracting compressed files, which some users might be interested in.
7-Zip for Linux now supports the use of 2MB huge pages. By utilizing huge pages, compression speed can be increased by approximately 10% in 7z / XZ / LZMA / LZMA2 formats. This is a very welcome performance improvement added to the already fast 7-Zip. It would also be interesting to run new 7-Zip benchmarks to see how much actual performance is improved when utilizing huge pages. [Omitted]
Several bug fixes have also been made. Details about 7-Zip 26.01 download or update can be confirmed through GitHub.
https://x.com/phoronix/status/2049065041664549218
