Wow, a program that doesn't matter anymore has been very very minimally enhanced on a platform that doesn't matter anymore, benefitting the 7 users that have more than 64 real cores with Windoes and are regularly compressing archives so large that it doesn't drastically reduce the compression ratio to split it into more thsn 64 sections.
Posting this link to hn has consumed more human potential than the thing it is describing will save up to the end of time.
The rest of this comment has, though gratuitously snarky, a point, but I don’t think claiming that 7zip is irrelevant as an independent statement is even remotely coherent.
Betamax, as released, was not better than VHS. It also had very low recording times of like 1 hour per tape.
Betamax was updated repeatedly, as was VHS. At no point was contemporaneous consumer Betamax able to match VHS for quality with the same recording times.
This is a persistent myth propagated primarily by people who have probably never seen Betamax in use.
Often people compare a professional version of betamax to consumer versions of VHS as well.
Posting this link to hn has consumed more human potential than the thing it is describing will save up to the end of time.