--- cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2006/10/12 16:04:01 1.25 +++ cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2007/11/13 11:30:37 1.36 @@ -1,11 +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. + - no changes to the decompressor. + - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15). -2.0 +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 broken horrific "unlzf" patch by Scott Feeney, + - remove bogus "unlzf" patch. note to self: never accept well-meant patches. - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof.