[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: [gdal-dev] Announcing SOZip: Seek-Optimized profile for the .zip format

[Even Rouault]

 > Very cool project, Even! (Why not "Cloud-Optimized" though? 😉 )

The term is heavily loaded and quite vague. SOZip doesn't make something 
cloud unfriendly magically cloud friendly. If you need to seek at 100 
different locations in a (uncompressed) file, you'll need to also seek 
at 100 locations in its SOZip compressed version (which is 
excruciatingly slow for a regular non-optimized ZIP). SOZip will shine 
most for local use cases, where this seeking in the underlying 
compressed stream is a cheap operation. For remote use, your mileage may 
vary.

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