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TODO: try unaligned copy again in decompressor |
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TODO: allow size-optimised binaries by avoiding unrolling |
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TODO: implement lzf_c_best in lzf. |
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3.8 (unreleased) |
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- support a state arg for lzf_c_best. |
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- disable STRICT_ALIGN by default, as unaligned accesses can trap |
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or worse even on x86. |
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3.7 (unreleased) |
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- add lzf_c_best.c, a slower but better compressor. |
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- switch to a multiplicative hash (developed with Steinar Gunderson), |
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which is faster on modern cpus and compresses a bit better. The old |
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hash function which uses only shifts is still available. |
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- allow user configurable hash table slots, which makes it possible |
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to use e.g. 16 bit offsets for a smaller hashtable (if your data is |
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always < 64kb). |
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- use _WIN32, not WIN32, when testing for windows (fails with bcc), |
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patch by Tamas Tevesz. |
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- try to port to win64+gcc, which is non-posix but doesn't have _int64 |
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(reported by Maciej Adamczyk). |
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3.6 Mon Feb 7 17:37:31 CET 2011 |
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- fixed hash calculation in C♯ version (Tiago Freitas Leal). |
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- unroll copy for small sizes, use memcpy for larger sizes, |
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greatly speeding up decompression in most cases. |
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- finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus, |
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and only a small win on amd cpus. |
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- improve C++ compatibility of the code. |
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- slightly improve compressor speed. |
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- halved memory requirements for compressor on 64 bit architectures, |
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which can improve the speed quite a bit on older cpus. |
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3.5 Fri May 1 02:28:42 CEST 2009 |
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- lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output |
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buffer (analyzed and nice testcase by Salvatore Sanfilippo). |
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3.4 Tue Sep 2 06:45:00 CEST 2008 |
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- the fix from 3.3 introduced a compression bug, which is fixed in |
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this release (which explains the mysterious prerelease...). Thanks |
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once more to Clément Calmels. |
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3.3 Mon Aug 25 03:17:42 CEST 2008 |
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- lzf_compress could access memory after the given input buffer |
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when outputting back references. reported with nice testcase |
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by Clément Calmels. |
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3.2 Fri May 9 18:52:23 CEST 2008 |
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- include a workaround for failing POSIX and real-world compliance |
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on 64 bit windows (microsoft claims to support POSIX, but is far |
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from it). (bug found and analysed nicely by John Lilley). |
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3.1 Fri Nov 30 11:33:04 CET 2007 |
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- IMPORTANT BUGFIX: a too long final literal run would corrupt data |
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in the encoder (this was introduced in 3.0 only, earlier versions |
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are safe). |
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3.0 Tue Nov 13 22:13:09 CET 2007 |
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- switched to 2-clause bsd with "GPL v2 or any later version" option. |
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- speed up compression by ~10-15% in common cases |
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by some manual unrolling. |
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- import some compiler tricks from JSON::XS, for further speed-ups. |
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- tune hash functions depending on ULTRA_FAST or VERY_FAST settings. |
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- for typical binary data (e.g. /bin/bash, memory dumps, |
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canterbury corpus etc.), speed is now comparable to fastlz, but |
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with better compression ratio. with ULTRA_FAST, it's typically |
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3-15% faster than fastlz while still maintaining a similar ratio. |
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(amd64 and core 2 duo, ymmv). thanks a lot for the competition :) |
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- undo inline assembly in compressor, it is no longer helpful. |
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- no changes to the decompressor. |
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- use a HLOG of 16 by default now (formerly 15). |
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2.1 Fri Nov 2 13:34:42 CET 2007 |
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- switched to a 2-clause bsd license with GPL exception. |
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- get rid of memcpy. |
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- tentatively use rep movsb on x86 and x86_64 (gcc only) for a |
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moderate speed improvement. |
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- applied patch by Kein-Hong Man to make lzf.c compile under |
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the crippled mingw32 environment. |
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2.0 Fri Feb 16 23:11:18 CET 2007 |
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- replaced lzf demo by industrial-strength lzf utility with behaviour |
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similar other compression utilities. Thanks for Stefan Traby for |
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rewriting it! |
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- fix state arg prototype. |
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1.7 Wed Sep 27 17:29:15 CEST 2006 |
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- remove bogus "unlzf" patch. |
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note to self: never accept well-meant patches. |
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- make lzf more robust in presence of padding bytes or sudden eof. |
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1.6 Fri Jul 7 17:31:26 CEST 2006 |
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- the lzf example utility will now uncompress if invoked |
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as "unlzf" (patch by Scott Feeney). |
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- add CHECK_INPUT option that adds more checks for input |
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data validity. |
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- help applications that do not pass in the correct length |
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(such as php) by returning either EINVAL or E2BIG. |
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- default HLOG size is now 15 (cpu caches have increased). |
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- documentation fixes. |
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1.51 Thu Apr 14 22:15:46 CEST 2005 |
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- incorporated C♯ implementation of both the en- and decoder, |
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written by "Oren J. Maurice". |
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You can find it in the cs/ subdirectory. |
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- make FRST, NEXT IDX overridable if lzf_c.c is directly included |
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in the code. |
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1.5 Tue Mar 8 20:23:23 CET 2005 |
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- incorporated improvements by Adam D. Moss, |
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which includes a new VERY_FAST mode which is |
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a bit slower than ULTRA_FAST but much better, |
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and enabled it as default. |
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1.401 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005 |
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- use cstring in c++, not string.h. |
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- change of contact address. |
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1.4 Wed Dec 15 08:08:49 CET 2004 |
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- very very slight tuning of the hashing function. |
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1.3 Thu Mar 25 15:41:17 CET 2004 |
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- changed license of lzf core code to explicitly allow |
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relicensing under the GPLv2. |
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- added VPATH support as suggested by Björn Eriksson. |
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1.2 Mon Dec 29 13:47:28 CET 2003 |
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- avoid spurious memory accesses after the to-be-compressed |
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memory region. originally reported by Michal Zalewski. |
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- flip LZF_STACK_ARG meaning (to be correct). |
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1.1 Tue Dec 23 05:48:32 CET 2003 |
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- removed #warn directive, it's not worth the hassle. |
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- add LZF_STACK_ARG and AVOID_ERRNO configurations |
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for embedded systems. |
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- make it compile cleanly as c++. |
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- some small documentation and code fixes. |
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1.0 Sun Nov 17 12:37:37 CET 2002 |
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- slightly better compression ratio, almost unmeasurably |
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slower. |
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- some documentation fixes. |
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0.4 Thu Jun 13 14:11:10 CEST 2002 |
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- typoe fix. |
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- lzf demo program now properly decompresses small files. |
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- fix another 64 bit issue, found by Laurent Deniel. |
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0.3 Tue Jan 16 13:21:14 CET 2001 |
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- fix silly beginners 32/64 bit mistake. |
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0.2 Thu Jan 4 05:56:42 CET 2001 |
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- now totally independent of autoconfig, for |
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easy inclusion into other programs. |
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- much better fine-tuning, faster and better than 0.1. |
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0.1 2000 |
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- initial release. |
