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The other day I noticed that the original Razor compressor (rz.exe) created a 32MB temporary file in the %TEMP% folder while testing a 7+ GB archive. Maybe because it would have run faster, testing/unpacking the compressed data, than the HDD speed.
Could someone port Razor to WinXP?? There is an early, v0-1 "draft" source code, heaven knows where it came from. The point is that the program can be compiled for XP, but it doesn't matter what kind of compiler. The MinGW version compresses EXEs worse than the "draft" EXE. This one runs on XP with a little patching. It only handles one file, it's not "fuzzsafe" or whatever they call it. The compression difference is 3-4% worse in favor of the v1.0x series, with a dictionary size of 64MB. There is also a decoder/decompressor compatible with the original RZ, but whether this can be ported to WinXP is a good question.
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