Depot on Mythryl: “tar is sequential and gzip is stream-oriented, so to read one file…”

tar is sequential and gzip is stream-oriented, so to read one file in a container layer you unpack everything before it. soci adds metadata that lets the runtime seek directly to the bytes it needs. depot.dev/blog/why-soc...

depot.devWhy SOCI belongs in the buildMost of a large container's startup goes to pulling and decompressing files it never reads to boot. SOCI makes the image seekable so the runtime loads only the bytes it needs, and Depot writes that in...

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