eli5: Why can’t programs run .zip files although they take just a few seconds to extract?

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Title, really.

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I think if you wanted you could programm them to be able to. However that would mean that your programm would have to extract the whole zip-file each time it needs one of the contents. Thats a lot of computational power and time wasted. The only benefit of it running off of a zip would be slightly faster integration of that file once, but having to run off a zip would cost you every time you used the program

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