Repeated reads of some files causes suboptimal performance on slow or remote filesystems

[sourcefrog]

To do: trace file IO, investigate any case where an archive file is avoidably read more than once, fix it.

Perhaps: emit a warning if the same file is read more than once.

#175 just fixed by @WolverinDEV fixes one pathological case of repeatedly re-reading files.

However, there are some other cases where it reads a small file repeatedly in a way that is cheap on a local filesystem (where it will be in cache) but might be very slow remotely. It's definitely worth fixing, and I think I have fixed some in the sftp branch, but there are probably more.

Originally posted by @sourcefrog in #177 (comment)