--- cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2007/02/16 22:13:43 1.27 +++ cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2007/11/13 11:43:27 1.37 @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +2.2 + - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option. + - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases + by some manual unrolling. + - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups. + - 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 in compressor, it is no longer helpful. + - no changes to the decompressor. + - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15). + +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