ZSTD_compress_generic() is renamed ZSTD_compressStream2().
Note that, for the time being,
the "stable" API and advanced one use different parameter planes :
setting parameters using the advanced API does not influence ZSTD_compressStream()
and using ZSTD_initCStream() does not influence parameters for ZSTD_compressStream2().
constants that *may* change in the future
will be accessed through functions instead
(to be created).
_simpleArgs() variant do not have (yet) a clear enough added value
to deserve "stable" status.
which now accepts an enum,
to distinguish between resetting the session, or the parameters (or both).
removed ZSTD_CCtx_resetParameters(), which is redundant.
start replacing invocation of ZSTD_CCtx_reset*() functions
Updated advanced API documentation
trimmed down amount of API staged in RC,
in particular, all functions related to ZSTD_CCtxParams()
seem too advanced.
answering #1407.
Also : removed obsolete function ZSTD_setDStreamParameter()
which could only be used with one parameter (DStream_p_maxWindowSize).
Now replaced by ZSTD_DCtx_setWindowSize() (which exists since a few revisions)
by triggering the prefetching decoder path
(which used to be dedicated to long-range offsets only).
Figures on my laptop :
no content prefetch : ~300 MB/s (for reference)
full content prefetch : ~325 MB/s (before this patch)
new prefetch path : ~375 MB/s (after this patch)
The benchmark speed is already significant,
but another side-effect is that this version
prefetch less data into memory,
since it only prefetches what's needed, instead of the full dictionary.
This is supposed to help highly active environments
such as active databases,
that can't be properly measured in benchmark environment (too clean).
Also :
fixed the largeNbDict test program
which was working improperly when setting nbBlocks > nbFiles.
not sure why it only triggers now,
this code has been around for a while.
Introduced a new error code : dstBuffer_null,
I couldn't express anything even remotely similar with existing error codes set.
changed workspace parameter convention
to always provide workspaceSize,
so that size can be explicitly checked.
Also, use more enum to make the meaning of some parameters more explicit.
isolate all logic associated with block decompression
into its own module.
zstd_decompress is still in charge
of context creation/destruction,
frames, headers, streaming, special blocks, etc.
Compressed blocks themselves are now handled within zstd_decompress_block .
fix#1385
decompressing into NULL was an automatic error.
It is now allowed, as long as the content of the frame is empty.
Seems to simplify things for `arrow`.
Maybe some other projects rely on this behavior ?
fix#1379
decodecorpus was generating one extraneous byte when `nbSeq==0`.
This is disallowed by the specification.
The reference decoder was just skipping the extraneous byte.
It is now stricter, and flag such situation as an error.
since corrupted bitstreams can generate too large values.
This slightly reduces the benefits from clang on my laptop.
gcc results and code generation are not affected.
while reviewing #1364,
I found a decompression speed improvement.
On my laptop, the new code decompresses +5-6% faster on clang
and +2-3% faster on gcc.
not bad for an accidental optimization...
note : for some reason,
scan-build version on my laptop found problems within fastcover.c
that scan-build on travisCI does not flag.
They are, as usual, false positive :
the analyzer does not understand that a table (`offset`) is correctly filled before usage.
This capability is not needed / used in the current unit of work. I'll
re-introduce it later, when we start allowing users to override the deduced
working context logs.
We pre-hash the ptr for the dict match state sometimes. When that actually
happens, a hashlog of 0 can produce undefined behavior (right shift a long
long by 64). Only applies to unoptimized compilations, since when
optimizations are applied, those hash operations are dropped when we're not
actually in dms mode.
keep one in compress_frameChunk(),
so that it's tested at every loop
in case some user simply some large mulit-GB input in a single invocation.
Add one in ZSTD_compressBlock(),
since compressBlock() explicitly skips frameChunk().
experimental function ZSTD_compressBlock() is designed for very small data in mind,
for situation where saving the ~12 bytes of frame header can actually make a difference.
Some systems though may have to deal with small and large data entangled.
If it's larger than a block (> 128KB), compressBlock() cannot compress them in one round.
That's why it's possible to compress in multiple rounds.
This is a chain of compressed blocks.
Some users push this capability to the limit, encoding gigantic chain of blocks.
On crossing the 4GB limit, some internal overflow occurs.
This fix moves the overflow correction mechanism higher in the call chain,
so that it's applied also to gigantic chains of blocks.
Added a test case in fuzzer.c, which crashes before the fix, and pass now.
which can be probed using new function ZSTD_minCLevel().
Also : redefined ZSTD_TARGETLENGTH_MIN/MAX for consistency
used the opportunity to bump version number to v1.3.6
ensure that the structure layout is as expected.
will trigger an error if it changes in the future.
Another solution would be to use a union,
this would be cleaner and get rid of these static asserts.
However, in order to keep the current code unmodified,
it would be necessary to use an un-named unions.
And apparently, un-named unions are only possible on "recent" compilers (C99+).
corresponding to the removal of workspace
which is needed while building huffman table
and is now either present in DCtx,
or temporarily borrowed from available FSE table space.
We could undersize the literals buffer by up to 11 bytes,
due to a combination of 2 bugs:
* The literals buffer didn't have `WILDCOPY_OVERLENGTH` extra
space, like it is supposed to.
* We didn't check the literals buffer size in `ZSTD_sufficientBuff()`.
* Minor fix
* Run non-optimize FASTCOVER 5 times in benchmark
* Merge fastCover into dictBuilder
* Fix mixed declaration issue
* Add fastcover to symbol.c
* Add fastCover.c and cover.h to build
* Change fastCover.c to fastcover.c
* Update benchmark to run FASTCOVER in dictBuilder
* Undo spliting fastcover_param into cover_param and f
* Remove convert param functions
* Assign f to parameter
* Add zdict.h to Makefile in lib
* Add cover.h to BUCK
* Cast 1 to U64 before shifting
* Remove trimming of zero freq head and tail in selectSegment and rebenchmark
* Remove f as a separate parameter of tryParam
* Read 8 bytes when d is 6
* Add trimming off zero frequency head and tail
* Use best functions from COVER and remove trimming part(which leads to worse compression ratio after previous bugs were fixed)
* Add finalize= argument to FASTCOVER to specify percentage of training samples passed to ZDICT_finalizeDictionary
* Change nbDmer to always read 8 bytes even when d=6
* Add skip=# argument to allow skipping dmers in computeFrequency in FASTCOVER
* Update comments and benchmarking result
* Change default method of ZDICT_trainFromBuffer to ZDICT_optimizeTrainFromBuffer_fastCover
* Add dictType enum and fix bug about passing zParam when converting to coverParam
* Combine finalize and skip into a single parameter
* Update acceleration parameters and benchmark on 3 sample sets
* Change default splitPoint of FASTCOVER to 0.75 and benchmark first 3 sample sets
* Initialize variables outside of for loop in benchmark.c
* Update benchmark result for hg-manifest
* Remove cover.h from install-includes
* Add explanation of f
* Set default compression level for trainFromBuffer to 3
* Add assertion of fastCoverParams in DiB_trainFromFiles
* Add checkTotalCompressedSize function + some minor fixes
* Add test for multithreading fastCovr
* Initialize segmentFreqs in every FASTCOVER_selectSegment and move mutex_unnlock to end of COVER_best_finish
* Free segmentFreqs
* Initialize segmentFreqs before calling FASTCOVER_buildDictionary instead of in FASTCOVER_selectSegment
* Add FASTCOVER_MEMMULT
* Minor fix
* Update benchmarking result