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bell-cot
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files
> ... pre-allocating a large enough header space to hold ...
Isn't the point of compression is to eliminate such wastes of space?
yjftsjthsd-h
65 days ago
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It's a trade between size and speed. If you want fast lookup, it's not a waste.
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Isn't the point of compression is to eliminate such wastes of space?