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I will make this analogy:

Have a large ZIP file. Preferably like a few gigs and lots of (small) files.

Try to open it with the built-in Windows 11 tooling from Microsoft. It's going to be super slow to even show anything never mind unpack it.

Now install say 7-zip and do the exact same thing(s) and it's going to be instant opening and unpacking it takes a much much smaller amount of time (only limited by disk speed).

Turns out optimizations / not doing stupid things is still a thing even with all this raw power we now have.




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