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Revision: 1.50
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2 - fixed hash calculation in C♯ version (Tiago Freitas Leal).
3 - unroll copy for small sizes, use memcpy for larger sizes,
4 greatly speeding up decompression in most cases.
5 - finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus,
6 and only a small win on amd cpus.
7 - improve c++ compatibility of the code.
8 - slightly improve compressor speed.
9
10 3.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009
11 - lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output
12 buffer (analyzed and nice testcase by Salvatore Sanfilippo).
13
14 3.4 Tue Sep 2 06:45:00 CEST 2008
15 - the fix from 3.3 introduced a compression bug, which is fixed in
16 this release (which explains the mysterious prerelease...). Thanks
17 once more to Clément Calmels.
18
19 3.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008
20 - lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer
21 when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase
22 by Clément Calmels.
23
24 3.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008
25 - include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance
26 on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far
27 from it). (bug found and analysed nicely by John Lilley).
28
29 3.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007
30 - IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data
31 in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions
32 are safe).
33
34 3.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007
35 - switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option.
36 - speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases
37 by some manual unrolling.
38 - import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups.
39 - tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings.
40 - for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps,
41 canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but
42 with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically
43 3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio.
44 (amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :)
45 - undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful.
46 - no changes to the decompressor.
47 - use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15).
48
49 2.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007
50 - switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception.
51 - get rid of memcpy.
52 - tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a
53 moderate speed improvement.
54 - applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to maske lzf.c compile under
55 the crippled mingw32 environment.
56
57 2.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007
58 - replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour
59 similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for
60 rewriting it!
61 - fix state arg prototype.
62
63 1.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006
64 - remove bogus "unlzf" patch.
65 note to self: never accept well-meant patches.
66 - make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof.
67
68 1.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006
69 - the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked
70 as "unlzf" (patch by Scott Feeney).
71 - add CHECK_INPUT option that adds more checks for input
72 data validity.
73 - help applications that do not pass in the correct length
74 (such as php) by returning either EINVAL or E2BIG.
75 - default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased).
76 - documentation fixes.
77
78 1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005
79 - incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder,
80 written by "Oren J. Maurice".
81 You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory.
82 - make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included
83 in the code.
84
85 1.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005
86 - incorporated improvements by Adam D. Moss,
87 which includes a new VERY_FAST mode which is
88 a bit slower than ULTRA_FAST but much better,
89 and enabled it as default.
90
91 1.401 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
92 - use cstring in c++, not string.h.
93 - change of contact address.
94
95 1.4 Wed Dec 15 08:08:49 CET 2004
96 - very very slight tuning of the hashing function.
97
98 1.3 Thu Mar 25 15:41:17 CET 2004
99 - changed license of lzf core code to explicitly allow
100 relicensing under the GPLv2.
101 - added VPATH support as suggested by Björn Eriksson.
102
103 1.2 Mon Dec 29 13:47:28 CET 2003
104 - avoid spurious memory accesses after the to-be-compressed
105 memory region. originally reported by Michal Zalewski.
106 - flip LZF_STACK_ARG meaning (to be correct).
107
108 1.1 Tue Dec 23 05:48:32 CET 2003
109 - removed #warn directive, it's not worth the hassle.
110 - add LZF_STACK_ARG and AVOID_ERRNO configurations
111 for embedded systems.
112 - make it compile cleanly as c++.
113 - some small documentation and code fixes.
114
115 1.0 Sun Nov 17 12:37:37 CET 2002
116 - slightly better compression ratio, almost unmeasurably
117 slower.
118 - some documentation fixes.
119
120 0.4 Thu Jun 13 14:11:10 CEST 2002
121 - typoe fix.
122 - lzf demo program now properly decompresses small files.
123 - fix another 64 bit issue, found by Laurent Deniel.
124
125 0.3 Tue Jan 16 13:21:14 CET 2001
126 - fix silly beginners 32/64 bit mistake.
127
128 0.2 Thu Jan 4 05:56:42 CET 2001
129 - now totally independent of autoconfig, for
130 easy inclusion into other programs.
131 - much better fine-tuning, faster and better than 0.1.
132
133 0.1 2000
134 - initial release.