/fasttar

A "fast" implementation of Golang's archive/tar

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fasttar Go Reference

A fast, zero-allocation implementation of Golang's archive/tar

Security

Some of fasttar's performance gains come from assuming that the input is well-formed. It should never be used in a security sensitive context as it can almost certainly be tricked into parsing data incorrectly or even panicing.