Wyatt's Archive format for Multipurpose Use

this is a project i made (Mostly out of boredom) to make my own archive format. It is pretty much just a Tarball but under a different name.

Installation

pip install wyattsarchiveutils

Usage can be seen below.

Benchmarks

I know this is what most of you are here for. These tests were done on a 2024 M3 Macbook Air with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of Storage (312/494 GB Used). In order to run these tests yourself, Use the -b option when running the scrips

Linux Codebase (As of 2/28/2026 @ 11:19 PM) (Clone depth = 1) (1.87 GB)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git Seeing as the linux codebase changes about once every 30 minutes i cant just say "Linux Codebase". So here is the performance of the program to create an archive for it and reconstruct it.

Writing: 15.44 Seconds Reconstruction: 1200.21 seconds

Usage

Writer:

wau-writer {option}

Options: Directory Output -b (Benchmark) Reconstructor:

wau-reconstructer {option}

Options: Archive -b (Benchmark)

AI Usage

This project was assisted in creation by the Pycharm Autocomplete plugin. Along with a small amount of help from Claude (Raycast) when i got stuck. The majority of this project was human written.

Demo Vid

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gcUvsz7iuU142PqjKQzFl-n92xnfXSvA/view?usp=sharing