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-<p><tt>lzma2</tt> is the method of compression employed by the <extlink href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip LZMA2</extlink> compressor. LZMA2 is a modified version of LZMA that offers a better compression ratio for incompressible data (random data expands about 0.005%, compared to 1.35% with original LZMA), and optionally can compress multiple parts of large files in parallel, greatly increasing compression speed but with a possible reduction in compression ratio (see <link topic="setup_lzmanumblockthreads">LZMANumBlockThreads</link>). Like LZMA, it can consume a <i>lot</i> of memory; see the above table. If a compression level isn't specified, it defaults to <tt>max</tt>.</p>
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+<p><tt>lzma2</tt> is the method of compression employed by the <extlink href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip LZMA2</extlink> compressor. LZMA2 is a modified version of LZMA that offers a better compression ratio for incompressible data (random data expands about 0.005%, compared to 1.35% with original LZMA), and optionally can compress multiple parts of large files in parallel, greatly increasing compression speed but with a possible reduction in compression ratio (see <link topic="setup_lzmanumblockthreads">LZMANumBlockThreads</link>). If a compression level isn't specified, it defaults to <tt>max</tt>. Like LZMA, LZMA2 can consume a <i>lot</i> of memory; see the above table. Do note: LZMA2 only supports a limited number of dictionary sizes and other sizes will be rounded up to the next supported size. Supported sizes are powers of two starting at 4 (4, 8, 16, 32, etc., up to 1048576) and the midway points between them (6, 12, 24, etc., up to 786432). For instance, a dictionary size of 524289 (512 MB + 1 byte) has the same memory requirements as one of 786432 (768 MB).</p>
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