Versions tested:0.7.3
Optimal parameters:default
Links:grzip-0.7.3.zip
Authors:Ilya Grebnov
Algorithms:LZP, BWT/ST+MTF/WFC
Notable peformances:-

grzip

GRZip - is a high-performance file compressor based on Burrows-Wheeler Transform and Advanced Weighted Frequency Counting. It uses The Block-Sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm, which has received considerable attention over recent years for both its simplicity and effectiveness. This implementation has compression rate of 2.378 bps on the Calgary Corpus.
the former website

 

The compressor is featured in the BWT comparison.

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Mirrored here in hopes that it is in concordance with the authors wishes: This program is free software. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful... [the source code]

The program crashes compressing Application1 with -a -i.

Qualified configurations
VerRatingCPRDPRS.E.R.E.RatioC. kB/sD. kB/s
<none>
0.7.3223735143.21540975083
-a -i
0.7.3203135033.18039155510

Version info

0.7.3, tar: yes, mode: 32-bit, crc32: 47f3e068, decoder: 40 kB
compression: grzip.exe c <args> <cfile> <src>
decompression: grzip.exe e <cfile>