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Revision: 1.41
Committed: Tue May 6 22:49:18 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
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2 - include a workaround for a compiler bug on 64 bit windows
3 (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far from it).
4 (analysed nicely by John Lilley).
5
6 3.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007
7 - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data
8 in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions
9 are safe).
10
11 3.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007
12 - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option.
13 - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases
14 by some manual unrolling.
15 - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups.
16 - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings.
17 - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps,
18 canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but
19 with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically
20 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio.
21 (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :)
22 - undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful.
23 - no changes to the decompressor.
24 - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15).
25
26 2.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007
27 - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception.
28 - get rid of memcpy.
29 - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a
30 moderate speed improvement.
31 - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to maske lzf.c compile under
32 the crippled mingw32 environment.
33
34 2.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007
35 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour
36 similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for
37 rewriting it!
38 - fix state arg prototype.
39
40 1.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006
41 - remove bogus "unlzf" patch.
42 note to self: never accept well-meant patches.
43 - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof.
44
45 1.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006
46 - the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked
47 as "unlzf" (patch by Scott Feeney).
48 - add CHECK_INPUT option that adds more checks for input
49 data validity.
50 - help applications that do not pass in the correct length
51 (such as php) by returning either EINVAL or E2BIG.
52 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased).
53 - documentation fixes.
54
55 1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005
56 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder,
57 written by "Oren J. Maurice <oymaurice@hazorea.org.il>".
58 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory.
59 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included
60 in the code.
61
62 1.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005
63 - incorporated improvements by Adam D. Moss,
64 which includes a new VERY_FAST mode which is
65 a bit slower than ULTRA_FAST but much better,
66 and enabled it as default.
67
68 1.401 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
69 - use cstring in c++, not string.h.
70 - change of contact address.
71
72 1.4 Wed Dec 15 08:08:49 CET 2004
73 - very very slight tuning of the hashing function.
74
75 1.3 Thu Mar 25 15:41:17 CET 2004
76 - changed license of lzf core code to explicitly allow
77 relicensing under the GPLv2.
78 - added VPATH support as suggested by Björn Eriksson.
79
80 1.2 Mon Dec 29 13:47:28 CET 2003
81 - avoid spurious memory accesses after the to-be-compressed
82 memory region. originally reported by Michal Zalewski.
83 - flip LZF_STACK_ARG meaning (to be correct).
84
85 1.1 Tue Dec 23 05:48:32 CET 2003
86 - removed #warn directive, it's not worth the hassle.
87 - add LZF_STACK_ARG and AVOID_ERRNO configurations
88 for embedded systems.
89 - make it compile cleanly as c++.
90 - some small documentation and code fixes.
91
92 1.0 Sun Nov 17 12:37:37 CET 2002
93 - slightly better compression ratio, almost unmeasurably
94 slower.
95 - some documentation fixes.
96
97 0.4 Thu Jun 13 14:11:10 CEST 2002
98 - typoe fix.
99 - lzf demo program now properly decompresses small files.
100 - fix another 64 bit issue, found by Laurent Deniel.
101
102 0.3 Tue Jan 16 13:21:14 CET 2001
103 - fix silly beginners 32/64 bit mistake.
104
105 0.2 Thu Jan 4 05:56:42 CET 2001
106 - now totally independent of autoconfig, for
107 easy inclusion into other programs.
108 - much better fine-tuning, faster and better than 0.1.
109
110 0.1 2000
111 - initial release.