--- cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2007/11/05 23:28:40 1.32 +++ cvsroot/liblzf/Changes 2008/05/06 22:49:18 1.41 @@ -1,4 +1,27 @@ - - switched to GPL v2 or any later version. + + - include a workaround for a compiler bug on 64 bit windows + (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far from it). + (analysed nicely by John Lilley). + +3.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007 + - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data + in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions + are safe). + +3.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007 + - 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.