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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 GNU tar(1) extraction is quadratic |
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3 .2C 16v |
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5 .PP |
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6 When implementing something from the ground, it gets possible to build-u… |
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7 Easy to implement, fast to adopt, supporting everything you need from it… |
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8 Likely an alternative to a huge elephant in the room: the current standa… |
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10 .PP |
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11 Why bother, then, with implementing the huge and difficult file format o… |
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12 Maybe because it would be used by many software, and writing data in thi… |
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14 .PP |
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15 In this compromise, a limit can be drawn, across which the big and bloat… |
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16 . |
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17 .PP |
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18 .\fImort\fR is exploring this limit in the context of the GNU tar(1) arc… |
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20 .PP |
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21 The result is a new tar implementation written for the single special-ca… |
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22 . |
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23 .FS |
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24 https://mort.coffee/home/tar/ |
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25 .FE |
