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Retr0idtoday at 10:08 AM3 repliesview on HN

Fun fact, having page-aligned uncompressed .so files in the APK allows the dynamic linker to mmap them directly out of the ZIP.


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mananaysiempretoday at 12:38 PM

Flashbacks of /OPT:NOWIN98 [1]. (That said, why not.)

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20031018072659/http://msdn.micros...

teddyhtoday at 11:22 AM

…and you’ve rediscovered .a (ar) files.

jleedevtoday at 11:21 AM

Ooh, with btrfs you could reflink an uncompressed zip entry to its own file on disk.