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Revision 1.23 by root, Fri Sep 29 19:43:01 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.61 by root, Sun Mar 3 11:31:01 2019 UTC

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2 - remove bogus while after for { }, reported by oesi. 2TODO: try unaligned copy again in decompressor
3TODO: allow size-optimised binaries by avoiding unrolling
4TODO: implement lzf_c_best in lzf.
5TODO: undefined unaligned access
6
73.8 (unreleased)
8 - support a state arg for lzf_c_best.
9
103.7 (unreleased)
11 - add lzf_c_best.c, a slower but better compressor.
12 - switch to a multiplicative hash (developed with Steinar Gunderson),
13 which is faster on modern cpus and compresses a bit better. The old
14 hash function which uses only shifts is still available.
15 - allow user configurable hash table slots, which makes it possible
16 to use e.g. 16 bit offsets for a smaller hashtable (if your data is
17 always < 64kb).
18 - use _WIN32, not WIN32, when testing for windows (fails with bcc),
19 patch by Tamas Tevesz.
20 - try to port to win64+gcc, which is non-posix but doesn't have _int64
21 (reported by Maciej Adamczyk).
22
233.6 Mon Feb 7 17:37:31 CET 2011
24 - fixed hash calculation in C♯ version (Tiago Freitas Leal).
25 - unroll copy for small sizes, use memcpy for larger sizes,
26 greatly speeding up decompression in most cases.
27 - finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus,
28 and only a small win on amd cpus.
29 - improve C++ compatibility of the code.
30 - slightly improve compressor speed.
31 - halved memory requirements for compressor on 64 bit architectures,
32 which can improve the speed quite a bit on older cpus.
33
343.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009
35 - lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output
36 buffer (analyzed and nice testcase by Salvatore Sanfilippo).
37
383.4 Tue Sep 2 06:45:00 CEST 2008
39 - the fix from 3.3 introduced a compression bug, which is fixed in
40 this release (which explains the mysterious prerelease...). Thanks
41 once more to Clément Calmels.
42
433.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008
44 - lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer
45 when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase
46 by Clément Calmels.
47
483.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008
49 - include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance
50 on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far
51 from it). (bug found and analysed nicely by John Lilley).
52
533.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007
54 - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data
55 in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions
56 are safe).
57
583.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007
59 - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option.
60 - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases
61 by some manual unrolling.
62 - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups.
63 - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings.
64 - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps,
65 canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but
66 with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically
67 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio.
68 (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :)
69 - undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful.
70 - no changes to the decompressor.
71 - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15).
72
732.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007
74 - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception.
75 - get rid of memcpy.
76 - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a
77 moderate speed improvement.
78 - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to make lzf.c compile under
79 the crippled mingw32 environment.
80
812.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007
82 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour
83 similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for
84 rewriting it!
85 - fix state arg prototype.
3 86
41.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006 871.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006
5 - remove bogus broken horrific "unlzf" patch by Scott Feeney, 88 - remove bogus "unlzf" patch.
6 note to self: never accept well-meant patches. 89 note to self: never accept well-meant patches.
7 - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof. 90 - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof.
8 91
91.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006 921.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006
10 - the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked 93 - the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked
16 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased). 99 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased).
17 - documentation fixes. 100 - documentation fixes.
18 101
191.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 1021.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005
20 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder, 103 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder,
21 written by "Oren J. Maurice <oymaurice@hazorea.org.il>". 104 written by "Oren J. Maurice".
22 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory. 105 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory.
23 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included 106 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included
24 in the code. 107 in the code.
25 108
261.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005 1091.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005

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