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24 alternatives to Zip files 4 times faster than 7-Zip with a demo written in JavaScript
Link to the demo: https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/zip.js/demos/demo-create-file.html To take advantage of this performance gain, you need to add at least 4 files to the zip file and use a Chromium-based browser as the library uses the recent CompressionStream API [1] which allows native file compression. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CompressionStream
Zip.js is a JavaScript library that compresses files into zip archives up to four times faster than 7-Zip when processing multiple files in Chromium-based browsers. It leverages the native CompressionStream API for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Zip files 4 times faster than 7-Zip with a demo written in JavaScript launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Faster user-land reimplementations for several common builtin native JavaScript functions. - codemix/fast.js
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TinyFast▲319I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns. So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types. I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.
2025 · tinyfast.app · its alternatives →
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A native macOS app for the 7-Zip archiving utility. - AkshayKalose/789-Zip
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, just wanted to share my success story with CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS. For those who may not be familiar, FFmpeg is a powerful tool for converting, streaming, and recording audio and video content. I started CompressX as a weekend project to serve my 9-5 jobs, primarily to compress demo videos for uploading to GitLab and sharing with my colleagues. It took me 2 weeks to make the first working version. I shared the demo on Twitter and the reaction was extraordinary. People loved it, they said that I was bringing the Pied Piper to life. Four months later, I hit the $9,000…
2024 · compressx.app · its alternatives →
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Crawls a Multi-Page Application to a zip file, serve the Multi-Page Application from the zip file. A MPA archiver. Could be used as a Site Generator. Written for https://pota.quack.uy/ - potahtml/mpa-archive
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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faster.js is a Babel plugin that compiles idiomatic Javascript to faster, micro-optimized Javascript. - vzhou842/faster.js
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create an index on a compressed text file. Contribute to mattgodbolt/zindex development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compressio▲92Free, open source image compression API & webapp
2021 · compressio.app · its alternatives →
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⚡ The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s - thecodrr/fdir
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have posted a much earlier version of this over a year ago [0]. Since then a lot has changed. Obviously, the name has changed. This happened for the paper publication [1]. I have also optimized the speed, integrated ISA-L for special cases, limited the compression-ratio-dependent maximum memory consumption, and finally added parallelized CRC32 computation, which adds ~5% overhead no matter the number of cores used. At this point, I am leaning towards calling it production-ready although there are still many ideas for improvements. Redoing the benchmarks of the older Show HN, would look…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free zip software to zip and unzip files
2025 · zipking.wmaster.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API - iamkun/dayjs
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Robust ZIP decoder with defenses against dangerous compression ratios, spec deviations, malicious archive signatures, mismatching local and central directory headers, ambiguous UTF-8 filenames, directory and symlink traversals, invalid MS-DOS dates, overlapping headers, overflow, underflow, sparsene
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create ZIP files instantly in Chrome
Feb 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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I built an experiment that uses an overfitted transformer and arithmetic coding to compress individual files. Instead of training the model to generalize, I train a 900KB transformer to memorize a single file and predict the next byte. Those predictions are fed into an arithmetic coder to produce the compressed output. On a 100MB NYC taxi CSV, it compresses to about 7MB (~0.5 bits/byte). On a 100MB slice of enwik9, it compresses to about 21MB (~1.68 bits/byte). It's pretty slow right now (roughly 20–30 minutes of training and 45 minutes each for compression and decompression on my…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hey folks! I know CSV parsers (especially in JS) aren't terribly exciting and someone writes a "better" one every week. I'm in the middle of my parental leave, and this was a project that came out of me looking for the fastest/smallest CSV parser. It all started so innocently, and then turned into a benchmark-validation-athon; the library itself took ~2 weeks to write, but the performance comparisons took another ~4 weeks (on and off). The benchmarks were a huge effort, but I think they are the most thorough to date, both in breadth and in depth, so hopefully you find them useful:…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ezyZip▲14Online file compression and conversion tools. for free!
2025 · ezyzip.com · its alternatives →
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Python function to stream unzip all the files in a ZIP archive on the fly - uktrade/stream-unzip
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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