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Revision 1.29 by root, Sat Jun 23 13:48:22 2007 UTC vs.
Revision 1.60 by root, Sun Oct 11 22:26:07 2015 UTC

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2TODO: try unaligned copy again in decompressor
3TODO: allow size-optimised binaries by avoiding unrolling
4TODO: implement lzf_c_best in lzf.
5
63.8 (unreleased)
7 - support a state arg for lzf_c_best.
8
93.7 (unreleased)
10 - add lzf_c_best.c, a slower but better compressor.
11 - switch to a multiplicative hash (developed with Steinar Gunderson),
12 which is faster on modern cpus and compresses a bit better. The old
13 hash function which uses only shifts is still available.
14 - allow user configurable hash table slots, which makes it possible
15 to use e.g. 16 bit offsets for a smaller hashtable (if your data is
16 always < 64kb).
17 - use _WIN32, not WIN32, when testing for windows (fails with bcc),
18 patch by Tamas Tevesz.
19 - try to port to win64+gcc, which is non-posix but doesn't have _int64
20 (reported by Maciej Adamczyk).
21
223.6 Mon Feb 7 17:37:31 CET 2011
23 - fixed hash calculation in C♯ version (Tiago Freitas Leal).
24 - unroll copy for small sizes, use memcpy for larger sizes,
25 greatly speeding up decompression in most cases.
26 - finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus,
27 and only a small win on amd cpus.
28 - improve C++ compatibility of the code.
29 - slightly improve compressor speed.
30 - halved memory requirements for compressor on 64 bit architectures,
31 which can improve the speed quite a bit on older cpus.
32
333.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009
34 - lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output
35 buffer (analyzed and nice testcase by Salvatore Sanfilippo).
36
373.4 Tue Sep 2 06:45:00 CEST 2008
38 - the fix from 3.3 introduced a compression bug, which is fixed in
39 this release (which explains the mysterious prerelease...). Thanks
40 once more to Clément Calmels.
41
423.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008
43 - lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer
44 when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase
45 by Clément Calmels.
46
473.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008
48 - include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance
49 on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far
50 from it). (bug found and analysed nicely by John Lilley).
51
523.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007
53 - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data
54 in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions
55 are safe).
56
573.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007
58 - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option.
59 - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases
60 by some manual unrolling.
61 - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups.
62 - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings.
63 - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps,
64 canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but
65 with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically
66 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio.
67 (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :)
68 - undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful.
69 - no changes to the decompressor.
70 - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15).
71
722.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007
73 - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception.
2 - get rid of memcpy. 74 - get rid of memcpy.
3 - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a 75 - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a
4 moderate speed improvement. 76 moderate speed improvement.
5 - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to maske lzf.c compile under 77 - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to make lzf.c compile under
6 the crippled mingw32 environment. 78 the crippled mingw32 environment.
7 79
82.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007 802.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007
9 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour 81 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour
10 similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for 82 similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for
26 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased). 98 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased).
27 - documentation fixes. 99 - documentation fixes.
28 100
291.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 1011.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005
30 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder, 102 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder,
31 written by "Oren J. Maurice <oymaurice@hazorea.org.il>". 103 written by "Oren J. Maurice".
32 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory. 104 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory.
33 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included 105 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included
34 in the code. 106 in the code.
35 107
361.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005 1081.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005

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