Compression ratio of fast strategies (levels 1 & 2)
was seriously reduced, due to accidental disabling of Literals compression.
Credit to @QrczakMK, which perfectly described the issue, and implementation details,
making the fix straightforward.
Example : initCStream with level 1 on synthetic sample P50 :
Before : 5,273,976 bytes
After : 3,154,678 bytes
ZSTD_compress (for comparison) : 3,154,550
Fix#1787.
To follow : refactor the test which was supposed to catch this issue (and failed)
* Bump `WILDCOPY_OVERLENGTH` to 16 to fix the wildcopy overread.
* Optimize `ZSTD_wildcopy()` by removing unnecessary branches and
unrolling the loop.
* Extract `ZSTD_overlapCopy8()` into its own function.
* Add `ZSTD_safecopy()` for `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`. It is
optimized for single long sequences, since that is the important
case that can end up in `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`. Without this
optimization, decompressing a block with 1 long match goes
from 5.7 GB/s to 800 MB/s.
* Refactor `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`.
* Increase the literal copy shortcut to 16.
* Add a shortcut for offset >= 16.
* Simplify `ZSTD_execSequence()` by pushing more cases into
`ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`.
* Delete `ZSTD_execSequenceLong()` since it is exactly the
same as `ZSTD_execSequence()`.
clang-8 seeds +17.5% on silesia and +21.8% on enwik8.
gcc-9 sees +12% on silesia and +15.5% on enwik8.
TODO: More detailed measurements, and on more datasets.
Crdit to OSS-Fuzz for finding the wildcopy overread.
This led to a nasty edgecase, where index reduction for modes that don't use
the h3 table would have a degenerate table (size 4) allocated and marked clean,
but which would not be re-indexed.
The source matchState is potentially at a lower current index, which means
that any extra table space not overwritten by the copy may now contain
invalid indices. The simple solution is to unconditionally shrink the valid
table area to just the area overwritten.
