zstd/lib/compress/zstd_opt.h
Yann Collet 5235d8d6ba first implementation of delayed update for btlazy2
This is a pretty nice speed win.

The new strategy consists in stacking new candidates as if it was a hash chain.
Then, only if there is a need to actually consult the chain, they are batch-updated,
before starting the match search itself.
This is supposed to be beneficial when skipping positions,
which happens a lot when using lazy strategy.

The baseline performance for btlazy2 on my laptop is :
15#calgary.tar       :   3265536 ->    955985 (3.416),  7.06 MB/s , 618.0 MB/s
15#enwik7            :  10000000 ->   3067341 (3.260),  4.65 MB/s , 521.2 MB/s
15#silesia.tar       : 211984896 ->  58095131 (3.649),  6.20 MB/s , 682.4 MB/s
(only level 15 remains for btlazy2, as this strategy is squeezed between lazy2 and btopt)

After this patch, and keeping all parameters identical,
speed is increased by a pretty good margin (+30-50%),
but compression ratio suffers a bit :
15#calgary.tar       :   3265536 ->    958060 (3.408),  9.12 MB/s , 621.1 MB/s
15#enwik7            :  10000000 ->   3078318 (3.249),  6.37 MB/s , 525.1 MB/s
15#silesia.tar       : 211984896 ->  58444111 (3.627),  9.89 MB/s , 680.4 MB/s

That's because I kept `1<<searchLog` as a maximum number of candidates to update.
But for a hash chain, this represents the total number of candidates in the chain,
while for the binary, it represents the maximum depth of searches.
Keep in mind that a lot of candidates won't even be visited in the btree,
since they are filtered out by the binary sort.

As a consequence, in the new implementation,
the effective depth of the binary tree is substantially shorter.

To compensate, it's enough to increase `searchLog` value.
Here is the result after adding just +1 to searchLog (level 15 setting in this patch):
15#calgary.tar       :   3265536 ->    956311 (3.415),  8.32 MB/s , 611.4 MB/s
15#enwik7            :  10000000 ->   3067655 (3.260),  5.43 MB/s , 535.5 MB/s
15#silesia.tar       : 211984896 ->  58113144 (3.648),  8.35 MB/s , 679.3 MB/s

aka, almost the same compression ratio as before,
but with a noticeable speed increase (+20-30%).

This modification makes btlazy2 more competitive.
A new round of paramgrill will be necessary to determine which levels are impacted and could adopt the new strategy.
2017-12-28 16:58:57 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2016-present, Yann Collet, Facebook, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This source code is licensed under both the BSD-style license (found in the
* LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree) and the GPLv2 (found
* in the COPYING file in the root directory of this source tree).
* You may select, at your option, one of the above-listed licenses.
*/
#ifndef ZSTD_OPT_H
#define ZSTD_OPT_H
#if defined (__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
#include "mem.h" /* U32 */
#include "zstd.h" /* ZSTD_CCtx, size_t */
void ZSTD_updateTree(ZSTD_CCtx* ctx, const BYTE* ip, const BYTE* iend, U32 nbCompares, U32 mls); /* used in ZSTD_loadDictionaryContent() */
size_t ZSTD_compressBlock_btopt(ZSTD_CCtx* ctx, const void* src, size_t srcSize);
size_t ZSTD_compressBlock_btultra(ZSTD_CCtx* ctx, const void* src, size_t srcSize);
size_t ZSTD_compressBlock_btopt_extDict(ZSTD_CCtx* ctx, const void* src, size_t srcSize);
size_t ZSTD_compressBlock_btultra_extDict(ZSTD_CCtx* ctx, const void* src, size_t srcSize);
#if defined (__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#endif /* ZSTD_OPT_H */