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The results are (sorta) in, and 7-zip is DEFINITELY out. I have used:

* PowerArchiver 8.60.02
* 7-zip 3.11
* GNU tar 1.13
* GNU gzip 1.3.5
* GNU bzip 1.0.2

-- The D-MODs Legend of Tenjin (LOT) and Stone of Balance (SOB) were used as benchmarks. The original sizes were -

LOT: 81,722,682 bytes
SOB: 64,408,690 bytes

In compression:

PowerArchiver:
LOT-
Format | Time | New Compressed Size
.tar - 5.37s | 83,148,800
.tar.gz - 12.84s | 7,192,127
.tar.bz2 - 16.75s | 6,217,091
.7z - N/A

SOB-
Format | Time | New Compressed Size
.tar - 7.35s | 65,853,440
.tar.gz - 12.73s | 9,450,568
.tar.bz2 - 17.04s | 8,655,353
.7z - N/A

7-zip:
LOT-
Format | Time | New Compressed Size
.tar - 4.18s | 83,167,744
.gz - N/A
.bz2 - N/A
.7z - 92.23s | 5,448,617

SOB-
Format | Time | New Compressed Size
.tar - 5.93s | 65,883,136
.gz - N/A
.bz2 - N/A
.7z - 91.98s | 7,223,708

GNU tar
LOT - 4.69s - 83,169,280
SOB - 2.98s - 65,884,160

GNU gzip (WITH tarring previously done)
LOT - 11.26s - 7,635,323
SOB - 13.31s - 9,254,176

GNU bzip2 (WITH tarring previously done)
LOT - 15.95s - 6,317,125
SOB - 21.74s - 8,623,692

And the decompression times:

LOT -
.tar - 17.92s
.gz - 17.97s
.bz2 - 16.87s

SOB -
.tar 17.42s
.gz - 18.89s
.bz2 - 17.38s

Okay, so, they're probably a little off. Interestingly enough, the first time I tried compressing them, it took around 20 seconds. The second, third, fourth, and fifth times took about 5 seconds. That kinda lowered the average. Would there be any caching?

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OK, right; i think I am just a bit upset when people cannot do things I find very simple

Uh, who are you talking to?