// is too large we are basically just thrashing the CPU D-cache.
	// So if the result length is larger than an empirically-found
	// limit (8KB), we stop growing the source string once the limit
	// is reached and keep reusing the same source string - that
	// should therefore be always resident in the L1 cache - until we
	// have completed the construction of the result.
	// This yields significant speedups (up to +100%) in cases where

		spd = append(spd, sparseEntry{Offset: offset, Length: length})
		sparseMap = sparseMap[2:]
	}
	return spd, nil
}

// Read reads from the current file in the tar archive.
// It returns (0, io.EOF) when it reaches the end of that file,
// until [Next] is called to advance to the next file.
//
// If the current file is sparse, then the regions marked as a hole
// are read back as NUL-bytes.
//