[physfs] What are the real benefits of PhysFS ?

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> Why is it faster, doesn't the unzipping cause delay too?

CPU is cheap, disk bandwidth is expensive. Reading a .zip archive's file 
listings might actually be faster than reading a real directory, since 
the data might all be in the same page on-disk.

> Can you specify a byte pointer to load? so I could append an archive to 
> my binary which would make switching versions as seemless as clicking on 
> an exe?

.zip files keep a signature at the end of the archive, which means you 
can append it to your .exe and PhysicsFS will treat it as a .zip file.

--ryan.