How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/305664/h...

Question links:
[bzip2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2
[gzip]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
[7-Zip]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip

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