20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
5:47 a.m.
On 6/19/06, Robert Ramey
This would be possible but ...
a) It would require some effort and no one has found the benefit to be worth that effort. b) It would usually require that the whole archive be loaded into memory to be parsed. This would mean that one could no longer handle an arbitrary sized data set. For some applications this wouldn't be a problem. For others - a deal breaker.
That makes sense. Thanks