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プロジェクトの歴史

The official homepage describes cmix as a lossless compressor that optimizes compression ratio at the cost of high CPU and memory use, with state-of-the-art results on several compression benchmarks.

The homepage download table records a long public release line beginning with v1 in April 2014 and continuing through v21 in September 2024. The GitHub repository was created in November 2015 and tracks the source-control era of the project.

採用の歴史

cmix is distributed narrowly compared with mainstream compressors: the input package facts list Homebrew only. Its adoption is therefore less about day-to-day compression and more about access for people studying or benchmarking high-ratio compressors.

使われ方

The official homepage emphasizes Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X support and recommends at least 32 GB of RAM. That framing makes cmix a benchmark and experimentation tool rather than a default archive format for ordinary users.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

cmix matters to package nerds because it is a deliberately impractical compressor in the useful sense: high CPU and memory needs make the packaging problem about reproducible builds, large-resource tests, and benchmark comparability rather than command convenience.

タイムライン

• 2014-04: v1 release listed on the official homepage.
• 2015-11: GitHub repository created and v8 release listed.
• 2019-08: v18 release listed.
• 2023-11: v20 release listed.
• 2024-09: v21 release listed.

Related projects

• The official homepage links cmix results to the Calgary, Silesia, enwik, Large Text Compression, Silesia Open Source Compression, and Lossless Photo Compression benchmarks.

ソース

• https://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html
• https://api.github.com/repos/byronknoll/cmix
• https://api.github.com/repos/byronknoll/cmix/releases