--- liblzf/Changes 2007/11/02 12:35:24 1.30 +++ liblzf/Changes 2010/06/01 01:50:24 1.50 @@ -1,4 +1,53 @@ + + - 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. + - slightly improve compressor speed. + +3.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009 + - lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output + buffer (analyzed and nice testcase by Salvatore Sanfilippo). + +3.4 Tue Sep 2 06:45:00 CEST 2008 + - the fix from 3.3 introduced a compression bug, which is fixed in + this release (which explains the mysterious prerelease...). Thanks + once more to Clément Calmels. + +3.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008 + - lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer + when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase + by Clément Calmels. + +3.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008 + - include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance + on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far + from it). (bug found and 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. - get rid of memcpy. - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a moderate speed improvement. @@ -28,7 +77,7 @@ 1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder, - written by "Oren J. Maurice ". + written by "Oren J. Maurice". You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory. - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included in the code.