cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32606497

why is unzipping on android so slow compared to Windows? I’ve tried ZipXtract, MaterialFile… All took 10+minutes to unizip a zip file that only took 30 seconds to unzip on Windows.

Why is this the case and i s there any way to speed it up?

Thanks a lot

EDIT:

I am using google pixel 9a so this issue looks like it might not be the issue of storage speed

Windows is not running in a virtual machine, just a normal laptop

Typo in the post fixed

EDIT AGAIN:

Solved!

yes it the archive does contains thousands of small files! I think that could be the reason of low performance on android mobile!

thanks a lot @Brett@feddit.org

  • aquacat@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    19 days ago

    I am NOT in any way well known in this topic, so take it as source? my ass answer, but if I’d have to guess it would be

    1. Poorer singlethread performance of ARM CPUs
    2. Missing instruction sets
    3. Android algorithms written in Java/Kotlin where as Windows (WinRAR, 7zip) are written in C/C++