Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks · Nov 22, 2021
Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly
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This post is about minimizing amount of disk IO and CPU overhead when reading Zip files. I recently saw an article about a new format that was faster than zip. This is quite surprising as to my mind, zip is one of the most flexible and low-overhead formats I’ve encountered. Some googling showed me that over past 11 years people have noticed that Firefox uses optimized zip files. This…
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