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Last time I looked the information I found online said that due to the way PKZIP files are structured it isn't possible to decompress them in parallel. But che

Last time I looked the information I found online said that due to the way PKZIP files are structured it isn't possible to decompress them in parallel. But checking again it seems that someone had done just that: https://github.com/jpakkane/parzip https://github.com/jpakkane/parzip

duskwuff 5y ago
That information was incorrect. Any member in a PKZIP archive can be decompressed independently of any other files in the archive, which is what parzip does. What you can't do is decompress a single archive member in parallel.