🛠️ WinZST > 7-Zip fork with first-class compressed tar support on Windows

Summary
WinZST is a 7-Zip fork that adds first-class compressed tar support on Windows. It extracts compressed tar archives directly to their final directory without creating intermediate tar files.

Why it’s interesting
It significantly reduces extraction time compared to standard 7-Zip by skipping the intermediate tar materialization step.

Target user
Windows users handling large compressed tar archives

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