On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 09:30:22AM +0100, Axel Hecht wrote: > The feature of zip we want is the index, that let's us seek to a > position in the bundle and start unpacking, just given the filename. > > How hard is to actually create a datastructure for the same purpose > for a tar.xz or so? I don't know really anything about the > uncompression algorithms to know if we could do something like > - seek to position N in bundle > - set state to X, if applicable > - uncompress, skip M bytes > -- you get your file contents, L bytes long > > Or so. Yes, it'd be a new file format, I guess, at least as far as I > can tell? Maybe it's worth it.
That's essentially what the 7z format does... it we're ready to take the decompression overhead. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
