diff --git a/src/oar.zig b/src/oar.zig
index 6a72116..f1e3b0f 100644
--- a/src/oar.zig
+++ b/src/oar.zig
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub const Entry = extern struct {
     }
 
     ///
-    ///
+    /// [FindError.EntryNotFound] happens when an entry could not be found.
     ///
     pub const FindError = sys.FileAccess.Error || error {
         EntryNotFound,
diff --git a/src/sys.zig b/src/sys.zig
index 4bb595e..f427eeb 100644
--- a/src/sys.zig
+++ b/src/sys.zig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const meta = @import("./meta.zig");
 const oar = @import("./oar.zig");
 const stack = @import("./stack.zig");
 const std = @import("std");
+const table = @import("./table.zig");
 
 ///
 /// A thread-safe platform abstraction over multiplexing system I/O processing and event handling.
@@ -211,7 +212,9 @@ pub const AppContext = opaque {
     ///
     ///
     ///
-    pub fn schedule(app_context: *AppContext, procedure: anytype, arguments: anytype) meta.FnReturn(@TypeOf(procedure)) {
+    pub fn schedule(app_context: *AppContext, procedure: anytype,
+        arguments: anytype) meta.FnReturn(@TypeOf(procedure)) {
+
         const Task = struct {
             procedure: @TypeOf(procedure),
             arguments: *@TypeOf(arguments),
@@ -348,6 +351,7 @@ pub const FileSystem = union(enum) {
 
     archive: struct {
         file_access: FileAccess,
+        index_cache: *table.Dynamic([]const u8, ArchiveEntry, table.string_context),
 
         entry_table: [max_open_entries]ArchiveEntry =
             std.mem.zeroes([max_open_entries]ArchiveEntry),
@@ -445,10 +449,21 @@ pub const FileSystem = union(enum) {
 
                     for (archive.entry_table) |_, index| {
                         if (archive.entry_table[index].using == null) {
-                            archive.entry_table[index] = .{
-                                .header = oar.Entry.find(archive.file_access, path.
-                                    buffer[0 .. path.length]) catch return error.FileNotFound,
+                            const archive_path = path.buffer[0 .. path.length];
 
+                            const entry_header = archive.index_cache.lookup(archive_path) orelse {
+                                const header = oar.Entry.find(archive.file_access,
+                                    archive_path) catch return error.FileNotFound;
+
+                                archive.index_cache.insert(archive_path, header) catch {
+                                    // If caching fails... oh well...
+                                };
+
+                                break header;
+                            };
+
+                            archive.entry_table[index] = .{
+                                .header = entry_header,
                                 .using = &archive.file_access,
                                 .cursor = 0,
                             };
@@ -533,7 +548,6 @@ pub const FileSystem = union(enum) {
                     if (native.path_prefix.len == 0) return error.FileNotFound;
 
                     var path_buffer = std.mem.zeroes([4096]u8);
-                    const seperator = '/';
 
                     const seperator_length = @boolToInt(native.path_prefix[
                         native.path_prefix.len - 1] != seperator);
@@ -640,6 +654,8 @@ pub const FileSystem = union(enum) {
                 },
             }
         }
+
+        pub const seperator = '/';
     };
 
     ///
diff --git a/src/table.zig b/src/table.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cec8dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/table.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+
+pub fn Dynamic(comptime Key: type, comptime Value: type, comptime key_context: KeyContext(Key)) type {
+    return struct {
+        buckets_used: usize,
+        bucket_map: []?Bucket,
+
+        ///
+        ///
+        ///
+        const Bucket = struct {
+            key: Key,
+            value: Value,
+            next: ?usize,
+        };
+
+        ///
+        ///
+        ///
+        pub const InsertError = error {
+
+        };
+
+        ///
+        ///
+        ///
+        const Self = @This();
+
+        ///
+        ///
+        ///
+        pub fn insert(self: Self, key: Key, value: Value) InsertError!void {
+            _ = value;
+            _ = key;
+            _ = self;
+        }
+
+        ///
+        ///
+        ///
+        pub fn lookup(self: Self, key: Key) ?*Value {
+            var bucket = &(self.bucket_map[@mod(key_context.hash(
+                key), self.bucket_map.len)] orelse return null);
+
+            while (bucket) {
+                if (key_context.equals(bucket.key, key)) return &bucket.value;
+
+                bucket = bucket.next;
+            }
+
+            return null;
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+pub fn KeyContext(comptime Key: type) type {
+    return struct {
+        hash: fn (Key) usize,
+        equals: fn (Key, Key) bool,
+    };
+}
+
+fn equalsString(this_string: []const u8, that_string: []const u8) bool {
+    return std.mem.eql(u8, this_string, that_string);
+}
+
+fn hashString(string: []const u8) usize {
+    var hash = @as(usize, 5381);
+
+    for (string) |byte| hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) + byte;
+
+    return hash;
+}
+
+pub const string_context = KeyContext([]const u8){
+    .hash = hashString,
+    .equals = equalsString,
+};