ISArcEx - A FreeArc Archive Extractor Plugin for InnoSetup

[audiofeel]

Originally Posted by wrathma

is there any way to unpack multiple archives at once (in parallel) using this?

Think of it like playing music. You can’t play two different songs at the same time using a single player - one has to wait. If you want parallel playback, you need two separate players.
It’s the same here: the unpacking engine works as a single "player". It processes one archive at a time. To unpack multiple archives in parallel, you would need multiple independent instances/processes doing the work simultaneously.
In the context of Inno Setup (and this library), that’s not supported - there’s effectively only one unpacking pipeline, so everything runs sequentially.

[wrathma]

Originally Posted by audiofeel

Think of it like playing music. You can’t play two different songs at the same time using a single player - one has to wait. If you want parallel playback, you need two separate players.
It’s the same here: the unpacking engine works as a single "player". It processes one archive at a time. To unpack multiple archives in parallel, you would need multiple independent instances/processes doing the work simultaneously.
In the context of Inno Setup (and this library), that’s not supported - there’s effectively only one unpacking pipeline, so everything runs sequentially.

i might have a clanky workaround that is to unpack the the big file using the installer and running a batch script on the background to unpack the other small archives. not tested but im pretty sure it will get the job done.