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[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
> Hello Andrei,
> 
>> The idea is to not extract the files every time you build. If they are
>> in place already, the tool should recognize that.
> 
> The difference in speed between disk IO and CPU /might/ be high enough 
> that (unless the uncompressed file is cached or you round trip it back 
> to the disk) reading from the zip may be faster. I know that on linux 
> there is a way to pass a stream as a file name (I forget what happens 
> under the hood, but bash uses the ">(cmd)" syntax to do it) so you could 
> work with that.


I'd argue that for this case, caching the extracted files is not worth the 
effort, complexity, or speed. If you're in an edit/compile/debug loop, I can't 
see working off of a zip file of the sources.