[CentOS] unrar rpm package

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

> Sven Aluoor wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Scott Robbins<scottro at nyc.rr.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> As was mentioned, rpmforge has it.  For what it's worth, p7zip does the
>>> same thing and somewhat more quickly at least in my very rough
>>> benchmarks, e.g. time rar e something.rar vs 7z e something rar.
>>
>> Did I understand right? "7z x" can unrar multipart *.rar archives
>> faster than unrar nonfree? How is the CLI syntax?
>
> I doubt that, given it seems to be the same code:
> "The decompression engine for RAR archives was developed using source
> code of unRAR program."

To the contrary, I would even argue that if you base your implementation 
on someone else's sourcecode, your implementation is at least as good, but 
potentially better than the original.

Because when rewriting you have to understand the original, so 
re-implementing provides you with the opportunity to improve. And since 
you have to verify it works exactly the same, there's a good chance both 
performance and correctness are guaranteed.

The original author may not have a reference to compete against.

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