7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
7-Zip 26.01 has been released, introducing support for huge pages on Linux to enhance compression speed. This update allows for a performance increase of approximately 10% for various compression formats. Additionally, new options for path generation during archive extraction have been added, along with several bug fixes.
- ▪7-Zip 26.01 now supports 2MB huge pages on Linux.
- ▪The update can increase compression speed by around 10% for certain formats.
- ▪New options for path generation during extraction have been introduced.
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7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 28 April 2026 at 05:55 AM EDT. 9 Comments 7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives. First and foremost, 7-Zip on Linux now supports making use of 2MB huge pages. In leveraging huge pages, 7-Zip can increase the compression speed by around 10% for 7z / XZ / LZMA / LZMA2 formats. A very nice performance win for the already speedy 7-Zip. It will be fun to run some new 7-Zip benchmarks soon to see how the performance is stacking up in leveraging Linux hugepages.
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