makes it more explicit that it allocates a buffer
and that it's meant to be used for dictionary.
Also : simplified function a bit,
now only works for dictionaries up to DICTSIZE_MAX
Replace fseek() in FIO_fwriteSparse() and FIO_fwriteSparseEnd() with macro expanding to 64-bit fseek version provided by the platform (includes fallback workaround using Win32 API).
the minimum size condition size is applied transparently (no warning, no error)
like previous minimum section size condition (1 KB) which still applies.
There is a large buffering effect when using zstdmt in MT mode.
Consequently, data is read first, pushed to workers,
and only later will the compressed result come out.
That means there is no longer immediate correlation
between amount of data read, and amount of data written.
This patch disables the displaying of % compression
when multi-threading is enabled.
It adds the displaying of total size when it can be determined
(it usually can be determined for files, but not for stdin)
so the user has a sense of "how far from the end" the compression compressed is.
There is no modification to decompression side,
since decompression is only single-threaded for now.
fileio.c was continually pushing more content without giving a chance to flush compressed one.
It would block the job queue when input data was accumulated too fast (requiring to define many threads).
Fixed : fileio flushes whatever it can after each input attempt.
By default, section sizes are 4x window size.
This new setting allow manual selection of section sizes.
The larger they are, the (slightly) better the compression ratio,
but also the higher the memory allocation cost,
and eventually the lesser the nb of possible threads,
since each section is compressed by a single thread.
It also introduces a prototype to set generic parameters,
ZSTDMT_setMTCtxParameter()
The idea is that it's possible to add enums
to extend the list of parameters that can be set this way.
This is more long-term oriented than a fixed-size struct.
Consider it as a test.
Yann Collet
Sean Purcell
Nick Terrell
Przemyslaw Skibinski
Yann Collet
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