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Show HN: WinZST > 7-Zip fork with first-class compressed tar support on Windows

https://github.com/firebadnofire/WinZST

WinZST is a 7-Zip fork that extracts compressed tar archives directly to their final directory instead of materializing an intermediate `.tar`.In one 11.8 GiB `.tar.gz` test containing mostly video, WinZST took 51.87s from archive → `foo/`; 7-Zip took 103.53s across `.tar.gz` → `.tar` → `foo/`.

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