Lazy/streaming interface for Archive?
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Description
Looks like the Archive requires the entirety of the archive to be loaded into memory. With Read + Seek, would it be possible to change this to be lazy-loaded, only reading the members and then reading the contents of each member as they're requested? I'm working with .a files that may be relatively big so this would be a great help. Also I'd be interested in helping implement this.
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Research direction
Start by locating the Rust Archive implementation and tracing how it currently uses Read and Seek while loading archive members. Compare the existing loading behavior with the requested lazy member access, then identify the API and lifetime constraints. Done means large .a files no longer require all member contents in memory and requested contents remain readable.
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
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- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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