[Retr0id]

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

[mananaysiempre]

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

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

[jleedev]

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

[teddyh]

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