tktech / fasterzip

A faster python zipfile.

Fasterzip

Fasterzip is a self-contained Python3.6+ and pypy3 cython module wrapping a subset of the miniz library to provide fast decompression of ZIP files when compared to the built-in zipfile module. Extraction of ZIP files with many entries is typically around ~33% faster.

Performance

Sample	CPython zipfile	fasterzip	Speedup
Reading 100000 1-byte files	~3.43s	~1.24s	63%

fasterzip's Issues

Not faster than `zipfile`

Apart from having a slightly different interface, this package is not faster than the builtin zipfile in my tests:

package	time
zipfile	00:56
fasterzip	01:15

(157,107 small files, Python 3.7)