As an IDS/IPS architect, Zip (and many other compression) format is the narly data stream that necessitate HUGE buffering, just to get to the compressing coding

As an IDS/IPS architect, Zip (and many other compression) format is the narly data stream that necessitate HUGE buffering, just to get to the compressing coding table at the end of the file. I only wish that compression table was at the forefront of its file format.