std.zip expand: memory allocation failed

[Imperatorn]

On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 17:38:22 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 13:43:36 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 10/26/21 2:32 AM, bauss wrote:
>>> On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 22:38:38 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Definitely not. It shouldn't use a lot of memory when 
>>> unzipping as it should be done in chunks!
>>
>> You guys aren't getting it:
>>
>> ```
>> ubyte[] expand(ArchiveMember de);
>> Decompress the contents of a member.
>> Fills in properties extractVersion, flags, compressionMethod, 
>> time, crc32, compressedSize, expandedSize, expandedData[], 
>> name[], extra[].
>> ```
>>
>> Where is it supposed to store that `ubyte[]`?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> That's the current implementation.
>
> I don't know about *nix, but my Windows machine can easily 
> extract a file bigger than my RAM.
>
> It ofc also depends on the dictionary.

The biggest file I've ever decompressed on my own hardware was 
about 200 GB.

Needless to say, it wasn't using the algorithm in std.zip