diff --git a/otaclient/app/downloader.py b/otaclient/app/downloader.py
index 34ef9190e..b101b097f 100644
--- a/otaclient/app/downloader.py
+++ b/otaclient/app/downloader.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import errno
 import logging
 import os
@@ -30,12 +32,10 @@
     ByteString,
     Callable,
     Dict,
-    Iterator,
     Mapping,
     Optional,
     Protocol,
     Tuple,
-    Union,
 )
 from urllib.parse import urlsplit
 
@@ -189,12 +189,10 @@ class DecompressionAdapterProtocol(Protocol):
     """DecompressionAdapter protocol for Downloader."""
 
     @abstractmethod
-    def iter_chunk(self, src_stream: Union[IO[bytes], ByteString]) -> Iterator[bytes]:
-        """Decompresses the source stream.
-
-        This Method take a src_stream of compressed file and
-        return another stream that yields decompressed data chunks.
-        """
+    def stream_reader(
+        self, src_stream: IO[bytes] | ByteString
+    ) -> zstandard.ZstdDecompressionReader:
+        pass
 
 
 class ZstdDecompressionAdapter(DecompressionAdapterProtocol):
@@ -203,8 +201,10 @@ class ZstdDecompressionAdapter(DecompressionAdapterProtocol):
     def __init__(self) -> None:
         self._dctx = zstandard.ZstdDecompressor()
 
-    def iter_chunk(self, src_stream: Union[IO[bytes], ByteString]) -> Iterator[bytes]:
-        yield from self._dctx.read_to_iter(src_stream)
+    def stream_reader(
+        self, src_stream: IO[bytes] | ByteString
+    ) -> zstandard.ZstdDecompressionReader:
+        return self._dctx.stream_reader(src_stream)
 
 
 # downloader implementation
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class Downloader:
     MAX_TRAFFIC_STATS_COLLECT_PER_ROUND = 512
 
     def __init__(self) -> None:
-        self._local = threading.local()
+        self._thread_local = threading.local()
         self._executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(
             max_workers=min(self.MAX_DOWNLOAD_THREADS, (os.cpu_count() or 1) + 4),
             thread_name_prefix="downloader",
@@ -274,25 +274,31 @@ def _thread_initializer(self):
         )
         session.mount("https://", adapter)
         session.mount("http://", adapter)
-        self._local.session = session
+        self._thread_local.session = session
 
         # ------ compression support ------ #
-        self._local._compression_support_matrix = {}
+        self._thread_local._compression_support_matrix = {}
         # zstd decompression adapter
-        self._local._zstd = ZstdDecompressionAdapter()
-        self._local._compression_support_matrix["zst"] = self._local._zstd
-        self._local._compression_support_matrix["zstd"] = self._local._zstd
+        self._thread_local._zstd = ZstdDecompressionAdapter()
+        self._thread_local._compression_support_matrix["zst"] = self._thread_local._zstd
+        self._thread_local._compression_support_matrix["zstd"] = (
+            self._thread_local._zstd
+        )
+
+        # ------ setup buffer ------ #
+        self._thread_local.buffer = buffer = bytearray(self.CHUNK_SIZE)
+        self._thread_local.view = memoryview(buffer)
 
     @property
     def _session(self) -> requests.Session:
         """A thread-local private session."""
-        return self._local.session
+        return self._thread_local.session
 
     def _get_decompressor(
         self, compression_alg: Any
     ) -> Optional[DecompressionAdapterProtocol]:
         """Get thread-local private decompressor adapter accordingly."""
-        return self._local._compression_support_matrix.get(compression_alg)
+        return self._thread_local._compression_support_matrix.get(compression_alg)
 
     @property
     def downloaded_bytes(self) -> int:
@@ -471,6 +477,7 @@ def _download_task(
         headers: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
         compression_alg: Optional[str] = None,
     ) -> Tuple[int, int, int]:
+        """The task entry to be executed in the download worker pool."""
         _thread_id = threading.get_ident()
 
         proxies = proxies or self._proxies
@@ -482,7 +489,7 @@ def _download_task(
             headers, digest=digest, compression_alg=compression_alg, proxies=proxies
         )
 
-        _hash_inst = self._hash_func()
+        digestobj = self._hash_func()
         # NOTE: downloaded_file_size is the number of bytes we return to the caller(if compressed,
         #       the number will be of the decompressed file)
         downloaded_file_size = 0
@@ -504,29 +511,22 @@ def _download_task(
                 url, dst, digest, compression_alg, resp.headers
             )
 
-            # support for compresed file
+            stream = raw_resp = resp.raw
             if decompressor := self._get_decompressor(compression_alg):
-                for _chunk in decompressor.iter_chunk(resp.raw):
-                    _hash_inst.update(_chunk)
-                    _dst.write(_chunk)
-                    downloaded_file_size += len(_chunk)
-
-                    _traffic_on_wire = resp.raw.tell()
-                    self._workers_downloaded_bytes[_thread_id] += (
-                        _traffic_on_wire - traffic_on_wire
-                    )
+                stream = decompressor.stream_reader(stream)
 
-                    traffic_on_wire = _traffic_on_wire
-            # un-compressed file
-            else:
-                for _chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=self.CHUNK_SIZE):
-                    _hash_inst.update(_chunk)
-                    _dst.write(_chunk)
+            buffer, view = self._thread_local.buffer, self._thread_local.view
+            while read_size := stream.readinto(buffer):
+                digestobj.update(view[:read_size])
+                _dst.write(view[:read_size])
 
-                    chunk_len = len(_chunk)
-                    downloaded_file_size += chunk_len
-                    traffic_on_wire += chunk_len
-                    self._workers_downloaded_bytes[_thread_id] += chunk_len
+                downloaded_file_size += read_size
+
+                _new_traffic_on_wire = raw_resp.tell()
+                self._workers_downloaded_bytes[_thread_id] += (
+                    _new_traffic_on_wire - traffic_on_wire
+                )
+                traffic_on_wire = _new_traffic_on_wire
 
         # checking the download result
         if size and size != downloaded_file_size:
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ def _download_task(
             logger.warning(_msg)
             raise ChunkStreamingError(url, dst, _msg)
 
-        if digest and ((calc_digest := _hash_inst.hexdigest()) != digest):
+        if digest and ((calc_digest := digestobj.hexdigest()) != digest):
             _msg = (
                 "sha256hash check failed detected: "
                 f"act={calc_digest}, exp={digest}, {url=}"