--- cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2006/07/07 15:34:11 1.18 +++ cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2007/11/13 10:48:02 1.34 @@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ +2.2 + - switched to GPL v2 or any later version. + - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases + by some manual unrolling. + - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS. + - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings. + - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps, + canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but + with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically + 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio. + (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :) + - undo inline assembly, it is no longer helpful. + +2.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007 + - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception. + - get rid of memcpy. + - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a + moderate speed improvement. + - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to maske lzf.c compile under + the crippled mingw32 environment. + +2.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007 + - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour + similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for + rewriting it! + - fix state arg prototype. + +1.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006 + - remove bogus "unlzf" patch. + note to self: never accept well-meant patches. + - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof. 1.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006 - the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked @@ -6,6 +37,8 @@ data validity. - help applications that do not pass in the correct length (such as php) by returning either EINVAL or E2BIG. + - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased). + - documentation fixes. 1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder,