Firefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really QuicklyFirefox's Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly 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
