Sections 2+ read a bit of data from previous section
in order to improve compression ratio.
This also costs some CPU, to reference read data.
Read data is currently fixed to window>>3 size
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.
Like ZSTD_initCStream_usingDict(),
ZSTDMT_initCStream_usingDict() now keep a copy of dict internally.
This way, dict can be released :
it does not longer have to outlive all future compression sessions.
Correctly compress with custom params and dictionary
Added relevant fuzzer test in zstreamtest
Also :
new macro ZSTDMT_SECTION_LOGSIZE_MIN, which sets a minimum size for a full job
(note : a flush() command can still generate a partial job anytime)
Since the result of mt compression is a single frame,
changed naming, which implied the concatenation of multiple frames.
minor : ensures that content size is written in header
Yann Collet
Yann Collet
Nick Terrell
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