{"id":16563,"date":"2016-12-08T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16563"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:16:30","slug":"the-slowness-of-archive-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/08\/the-slowness-of-archive-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slowness of Archive Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robservatory.com\/the-finders-gui-tax-can-be-very-expensive\/\">Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/robservatory.com\/the-finders-gui-tax-can-be-very-expensive\/\">\n<p>Not only is this randomly-resizing dialog box visually annoying, it turns what should be a super-fast process into one that takes a ridiculous amount of time. The end result is that users think they have a slow machine&mdash;&rdquo;it took over 12 seconds to expand 25 tiny little archives!&rdquo;&mdash;when what they really have is a horrendously slow GUI interface to a super fast task.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It took just 0.013 seconds with <tt>gzip<\/tt> Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-12-09): <a href=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/finder-gui-tax\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/finder-gui-tax\/\">\n<p>[&#8230;] many archives will take less than a second to expand using the Terminal. Those files should, ideally, be unarchived in place, without opening an additional window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Griffiths: Not only is this randomly-resizing dialog box visually annoying, it turns what should be a super-fast process into one that takes a ridiculous amount of time. The end result is that users think they have a slow machine&mdash;&rdquo;it took over 12 seconds to expand 25 tiny little archives!&rdquo;&mdash;when what they really have is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-10-21T18:16:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"01b3b360-f04b-4249-91c1-70bde8079ef3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-21T18:16:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAbOzYPBLQkmRwXC96Aee8w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,30,1381,2673],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-compression","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-zip-archive"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16573,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions\/16573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}