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There's not an _easy_ way to do this right now.

Your best bet is a lossless transform that undoes the huffman coding in the zip files, converting the compressed streams from effectively uncorrelated bitstreams to largely similar byte streams, and then pass that through a large-window compression algorithm (zstd?).

Similar techniques are used in ChromeOS for delta updates.




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