For example, I run TortoiseGit which has a caching feature which is supposed to make it faster at showing what to commit. Disabling it increases the number of items I can delete per second in my Windows Explorer from about 1000 to about 3000 while making not making TortoiseGit operations meaningfully slower (that I can tell).
This is a Dev Drive [0] on my machine, it would probably be slower on my C: drive which has full Windows Defender real time file scanning.
Yes C: is slow due to filters and Dev Drive is faster; but this difference can only be felt when using the command line; Windows Explorer has so much additional overhead that the overhead from file filters is insignificant in comparison.
nah, its equally slow on system with everything ripped out (defender, filters, even logging).
This is a great article on why it's so unreasonably slow to modify these archives: https://textslashplain.com/2021/06/02/leaky-abstractions/
But it doesn't seem to explain why it's so much slower at regular extraction.