Use 7zip if available to create zip files#1277
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I have added the option to use 7zip if installed to the (bash) build script. This improves zip creation performance on a multicore machine, for me it is about 3x. The size difference of the resulting files is marginal.
-- with 7zip --
real 0m6,292s
user 0m22,831s
sys 0m3,988s
total size of zip files: 779596k
-- with zip --
real 0m18,029s
user 0m14,783s
sys 0m2,621s
total size of zip files: 778792k