Dnia poniedziałek 12 kwiecień 2010 o 19:30:00 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
Serbinenko napisał(a):
> > You can also buffer the block offsets so that you can seek in the part
> > of the file you have seen already.
> 
> Decompressor is stateful so you'll need to save the sate as well which
> may eat more RAM than decompressing the whole uncompressed file. It also
> doesn't solve the issue of retrieving e.g. the last character from
> compressed file without retrieving all preceding ones

I think that Michal was refering to cache already read blocks metadata (which 
is not a bad idea if file is often seek back and forward).

-- 
Szymon K. Janc
szy...@janc.net.pl // GG: 1383435


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