Fun fact, having page-aligned uncompressed .so files in the APK allows the dynamic linker to mmap them directly out of the ZIP.
…and you’ve rediscovered .a (ar) files.
Ooh, with btrfs you could reflink an uncompressed zip entry to its own file on disk.
Flashbacks of /OPT:NOWIN98 [1]. (That said, why not.)
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