What is the difference between .lzma and .gzip?
- Extension
- .lzma
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- GNU
- Description
- A compressed file format that uses LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression for higher compression ratio and fast decompression. Mainly used by 7-Zip file archivers.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzma
- application/x-gzip
- Sample
- sample.lzma
- Wikipedia
- .lzma on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia