Zip – How not to design a file format

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  • You can also read the redbean source code, since it's the web server that reads/writes to its own executable zip file as a native process. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/f3e28aa192d433c379... Some ZIP APIs are designed in such a way that you can even use the POPCNT instruction to decode them.

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