> It's not hard being faster than zip if you are not compressing/uncompressing
Actually, since CPUs are so fast and disk IO is so slow, it is essentially impossible to beat a properly tuned program that reads data from disk and decompresses it on the fly using one that doesn't use compression at all.
Actually, since CPUs are so fast and disk IO is so slow, it is essentially impossible to beat a properly tuned program that reads data from disk and decompresses it on the fly using one that doesn't use compression at all.