Compression ratio of fast strategies (levels 1 & 2)
was seriously reduced, due to accidental disabling of Literals compression.
Credit to @QrczakMK, which perfectly described the issue, and implementation details,
making the fix straightforward.
Example : initCStream with level 1 on synthetic sample P50 :
Before : 5,273,976 bytes
After : 3,154,678 bytes
ZSTD_compress (for comparison) : 3,154,550
Fix#1787.
To follow : refactor the test which was supposed to catch this issue (and failed)
* Fix `ZSTD_FRAMEHEADERSIZE_PREFIX` and `ZSTD_FRAMEHEADERSIZE_MIN` to
take a `format` parameter, so it is impossible to get the wrong size.
* Fix the places that called `ZSTD_FRAMEHEADERSIZE_PREFIX` without
taking the format into account, which is now impossible by design.
* Call `ZSTD_frameHeaderSize_internal()` with `dctx->format`.
* The added tests catch both bugs in `ZSTD_decompressFrame()`.
Fixes#1813.
* Bump `WILDCOPY_OVERLENGTH` to 16 to fix the wildcopy overread.
* Optimize `ZSTD_wildcopy()` by removing unnecessary branches and
unrolling the loop.
* Extract `ZSTD_overlapCopy8()` into its own function.
* Add `ZSTD_safecopy()` for `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`. It is
optimized for single long sequences, since that is the important
case that can end up in `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`. Without this
optimization, decompressing a block with 1 long match goes
from 5.7 GB/s to 800 MB/s.
* Refactor `ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`.
* Increase the literal copy shortcut to 16.
* Add a shortcut for offset >= 16.
* Simplify `ZSTD_execSequence()` by pushing more cases into
`ZSTD_execSequenceEnd()`.
* Delete `ZSTD_execSequenceLong()` since it is exactly the
same as `ZSTD_execSequence()`.
clang-8 seeds +17.5% on silesia and +21.8% on enwik8.
gcc-9 sees +12% on silesia and +15.5% on enwik8.
TODO: More detailed measurements, and on more datasets.
Crdit to OSS-Fuzz for finding the wildcopy overread.
Yann Collet