--- liblzf/Changes 2010/06/01 01:15:34 1.49 +++ liblzf/Changes 2012/03/30 20:58:09 1.57 @@ -1,10 +1,30 @@ +TODO: try unaligned copy again in decompressor +TODO: allow size-optimised binaries by avoiding unrolling +TODO: implement lzf_c_best in lzf. +TODO: fix lzf_c_best. + + - switch to a multiplicative hash (developed with Steinar Gunderson), + which is faster on modern cpus and compresses a bit better. The old + hash function which uses only shifts is still available. + - allow user configurable hash table slots, which makes it possible + to use e.g. 16 bit offsets for a smaller hashtable (if your data is + always < 64kb). + - use _WIN32, not WIN32, when testing for windows (fails with bcc), + patch by Tamas Tevesz. + - try to port to win64+gcc, which is non-posix but doesn't have _int64 + (reported by Maciej Adamczyk). + +3.6 Mon Feb 7 17:37:31 CET 2011 - fixed hash calculation in C♯ version (Tiago Freitas Leal). - unroll copy for small sizes, use memcpy for larger sizes, greatly speeding up decompression in most cases. - finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus, and only a small win on amd cpus. - - improve c++ compatibility of the code. + - improve C++ compatibility of the code. + - slightly improve compressor speed. + - halved memory requirements for compressor on 64 bit architectures, + which can improve the speed quite a bit on older cpus. 3.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009 - lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output