Fixes:
Enable RLE blocks for superblock mode
Fix the limitation that the literals block must shrink. Instead, when we're within 200 bytes of the next header byte size, we will just use the next one up. That way we should (almost?) always have space for the table.
Remove the limitation that the first sub-block MUST have compressed literals and be compressed. Now one sub-block MUST be compressed (otherwise we fall back to raw block which is okay, since that is streamable). If no block has compressed literals that is okay, we will fix up the next Huffman table.
Handle the case where the last sub-block is uncompressed (maybe it is very small). Before it would skip superblock in this case, now we allow the last sub-block to be uncompressed. To do this we need to regenerate the correct repcodes.
Respect disableLiteralsCompression in superblock mode
Fix superblock mode to handle a block consisting of only compressed literals
Fix a off by 1 error in superblock mode that disabled it whenever there were last literals
Fix superblock mode with long literals/matches (> 0xFFFF)
Allow superblock mode to repeat Huffman tables
Respect ZSTD_minGain().
Tests:
Simple check for the condition in #2096.
When the simple_round_trip fuzzer enables superblock mode, it checks that the compressed size isn't expanded too much.
Remaining limitations:
O(targetCBlockSize^2) because we recompute statistics every sequence
Unable to split literals of length > targetCBlockSize into multiple sequences
Refuses to generate sub-blocks that don't shrink the compressed data, so we could end up with large sub-blocks. We should emit those sections as uncompressed blocks instead.
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Fixes#2096
* All copyright lines now have -2020 instead of -present
* All copyright lines include "Facebook, Inc"
* All licenses are now standardized
The copyright in `threading.{h,c}` is not changed because it comes from
zstdmt.
The copyright and license of `divsufsort.{h,c}` is not changed.
We would only skip at most 192 bytes at a time before this diff.
This was added to optimize long matches and skip the middle of the
match. However, it doesn't handle the case of repetitive data.
This patch keeps the optimization, but also handles repetitive data
by taking the max of the two return values.
```
> for n in $(seq 9); do echo strategy=$n; dd status=none if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1000 | command time -f %U ./zstd --zstd=strategy=$n >/dev/null; done
strategy=1
0.27
strategy=2
0.23
strategy=3
0.27
strategy=4
0.43
strategy=5
0.56
strategy=6
0.43
strategy=7
0.34
strategy=8
0.34
strategy=9
0.35
```
At level 19 with multithreading the compressed size of `silesia.tar` regresses 300 bytes, and `enwik8` regresses 100 bytes.
In single threaded mode `enwik8` is also within 100 bytes, and I didn't test `silesia.tar`.
Fixes Issue #1634.
It's re-synchronized with nextToUpdate at beginning of each block.
It only needs to be tracked from within zstd_opt block parser.
Made the logic clear, so that no code tried to maintain this variable.
An even better solution would be to make nextToUpdate3
an internal variable of ZSTD_compressBlock_opt_generic().
That would make it possible to remove it from ZSTD_matchState_t,
thus restricting its visibility to only where it's actually useful.
This would require deeper changes though,
since the matchState is the natural structure to transport parameters into and inside the parser.