This makes it easier to explain that nbWorkers=0 --> single-threaded mode,
while nbWorkers=1 --> asynchronous mode (one mode thread on top of the "main" caller thread).
No need for an additional asynchronous mode flag.
nbWorkers>=2 works the same as nbThreads>=2 previously.
UTIL_getFileSize() used to return zero on failure.
This made it impossible to distinguish a failure from a genuine empty file.
Both cases where coalesced.
Adding UTIL_FILESIZE_UNKNOWN constant has many consequences on user code,
since in many places, the `0` was assumed to mean "error".
This is no longer the case, and the error code must be actively checked.
It does not feel "right" from a dependency perspective.
ZSTD_initDCtx_internal() is triggered once, on DCtx creation,
while ZSTD_decompressBegin() is invoked at the beginning of each new frame,
and is also a user-facing prototype.
Downside : a DCtx must be init before first usage !
This was always the intention by the way, and is documented as such.
This stage is automatically done within ZSTD_decompress() and variants,
and also within ZSTD_decompressStream().
Only ZSTD_decompressContinue() is impacted,
it must be preceded by a ZSTD_decompressBegin(), as detailed in doc.
A test has been fixed, to no longer rely on undocumented assumption that ZSTD_decompressBegin() is invoked during init.
for easier invocation.
- no longer expose frequency timer :
it's either useless, or stored internally in a static variable (init is only necessary once).
- UTIL_getTime() provides result by function return.
ZSTD_frameParams => ZSTD_frameHeader
ZSTD_getFrameParams() -> ZSTD_getFrameHeader()
The new naming is more distinctive from ZSTD_frameParameters,
which is used during compression.
ZSTD_frameHeader is clearer in its intention to described frame header content.
It also implies we are decoding a ZSTD frame, hence we are at decoding stage.
Yann Collet
cyan4973
Nick Terrell
Przemyslaw Skibinski