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Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
An article outlines a method to mount tar or tar.gz archives directly as a filesystem in WebAssembly using Emscripten's WORKERFS, eliminating the need to extract files by leveraging a JSON index that maps file offsets within the archive. This optimization, implemented via the tar-vfs-index npm package, is used by WebR to load R packages faster with reduced memory usage, either through a separate index file or by embedding the index within the tarball itself.
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7 tagsWebAssemblytar archivestar.gzvirtual filesystemmemory optimizationWebREmscripten
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