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April's Cumulative Update speeds up file extraction for small files
In various news sources, the claim is that it speeds up extraction by 5-10% when extracting archives with lots of small files.
Test File: 30MB archive made up of 786 folder and 13810 files, each mode tested 5 times then averaged. Inter-run variability was actually quite consistent.
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Windows updates can include improvements to the decompression libraries or underlying APIs used during extraction.
From my experience and what I’ve read elsewhere, small files can really bog down extraction because each file involves a lot of overhead—like file headers, metadata, and filesystem operations. Any optimization that reduces this overhead can noticeably speed up the process, especially for archives full of tiny files.
