This commit moves the candidate advanced API to the stable section.
It makes some minor whitespace changes, but it doesn't change any
of the wording of the documentation.
I'll put up a separate PR that tweaks some of the documentation
once this lands, so that it is easier to review.
NOTE: Even though these functions are now in stable, they aren't
stable until the next release (in under 1 month). It is possible
that they change until then.
Update to use the new streaming API. Making progress on Issue #1548.
Tested that the checks don't fail.
Tested with window log 9-32. The lowest and highest fail as expected.
This PR is based on top of PR #1563.
The optimization is to process two input pointers per loop.
It is based on ideas from [igzip] level 1, and talking to @gbtucker.
| Platform | Silesia | Enwik8 |
|-------------------------|-------------|--------|
| OSX clang-10 | +5.3% | +5.4% |
| i9 5 GHz gcc-8 | +6.6% | +6.6% |
| i9 5 GHz clang-7 | +8.0% | +8.0% |
| Skylake 2.4 GHz gcc-4.8 | +6.3% | +7.9% |
| Skylake 2.4 GHz clang-7 | +6.2% | +7.5% |
Testing on all Silesia files on my Intel i9-9900k with gcc-8
| Silesia File | Ratio Change | Speed Change |
|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| silesia.tar | +0.17% | +6.6% |
| dickens | +0.25% | +7.0% |
| mozilla | +0.02% | +6.8% |
| mr | -0.30% | +10.9% |
| nci | +1.28% | +4.5% |
| ooffice | -0.35% | +10.7% |
| osdb | +0.75% | +9.8% |
| reymont | +0.65% | +4.6% |
| samba | +0.70% | +5.9% |
| sao | -0.01% | +14.0% |
| webster | +0.30% | +5.5% |
| xml | +0.92% | +5.3% |
| x-ray | -0.00% | +1.4% |
Same tests on Calgary. For brevity, I've only included files
where compression ratio regressed or was much better.
| Calgary File | Ratio Change | Speed Change |
|--------------|--------------|--------------|
| calgary.tar | +0.30% | +7.1% |
| geo | -0.14% | +25.0% |
| obj1 | -0.46% | +15.2% |
| obj2 | -0.18% | +6.0% |
| pic | +1.80% | +9.3% |
| trans | -0.35% | +5.5% |
We gain 0.1% of compression ratio on Silesia.
We gain 0.3% of compression ratio on enwik8.
I also tested on the GitHub and hg-commands datasets without a dictionary,
and we gain a small amount of compression ratio on each, as well as speed.
I tested the negative compression levels on Silesia on my
Intel i9-9900k with gcc-8:
| Level | Ratio Change | Speed Change |
|-------|--------------|--------------|
| -1 | +0.13% | +6.4% |
| -2 | +4.6% | -1.5% |
| -3 | +7.5% | -4.8% |
| -4 | +8.5% | -6.9% |
| -5 | +9.1% | -9.1% |
Roughly, the negative levels now scale half as quickly. E.g. the new
level 16 is roughly equivalent to the old level 8, but a bit quicker
and smaller. If you don't think this is the right trade off, we can
change it to multiply the step size by 2, instead of adding 1. I think
this makes sense, because it gives a bit slower ratio decay.
[igzip]: https://github.com/01org/isa-l/tree/master/igzip
Update to use the new streaming API. Making progress on Issue #1548.
Tested that it can decompress files produced by `streaming_compression`.
Tested that it can decompress two frames concatenated together.
Tested that it fails on corrupted data.
It wasn't using the ZSTD_CCtx_params correctly. It must actualize
the compression parameters by calling ZSTD_getCParamsFromCCtxParams()
to get the real window log.
Tested by updating the streaming memory usage example in the next
commit. The CHECK() failed before this patch, and passes after.
I also added a unit test to zstreamtest.c that failed before this
patch, and passes after.
Update to use the new streaming API. Making progress on Issue #1548.
Tested that multiple files could be compressed, and that the output
is the same as calling `streaming_compression` multiple times with
the same compression level, and that it can be decompressed.
* The algorithm would bail as soon as it found one epoch that
contained no new segments. Change it so it now has to fail
>= 10 times in a row (10 for fastcover, 10-100 for cover).
* The algorithm uses the `maxDict` size to decide the epoch size.
When this size is absurdly large, it causes tiny epochs. Lower
bound the epoch size at 10x the segment size, and warn the user
that their training set is too small.
Fixes#1554
* After loading a dictionary only create the cdict once we've started the
compression job. This allows the user to pass the dictionary before they
set other settings, and is in line with the rest of the API.
* Add tests that mix the 3 dictionary loading APIs.
* Add extra tests for `ZSTD_CCtx_loadDictionary()`.
* The first 2 tests added fail before this patch.
* Run the regression test suite.
The order you set parameters in the advanced API is not supposed to matter.
However, once you call `ZSTD_CCtx_refCDict()` the compression parameters
cannot be changed. Remove that restriction, and document what parameters
are used when using a CDict.
If the CCtx is in dictionary mode, then the CDict's parameters are used.
If the CCtx is not in dictionary mode, then its requested parameters are
used.
* Move all ZSTDMT parameter setting code to ZSTD_CCtxParams_*Parameter().
ZSTDMT now calls these functions, so we can keep all the logic in the
same place.
* Clean up `ZSTD_CCtx_setParameter()` to only add extra checks where needed.
* Clean up `ZSTDMT_initJobCCtxParams()` by copying all parameters by default,
and then zeroing the ones that need to be zeroed. We've missed adding several
parameters here, and it makes more sense to only have to update it if you
change something in ZSTDMT.
* Add `ZSTDMT_cParam_clampBounds()` to clamp a parameter into its valid
range. Use this to keep backwards compatibility when setting ZSTDMT parameters,
which clamp into the valid range.
Test a positive compression level with uncompressed literals,
and a negative compression level with compressed literals.
I double checked the `results.csv` and made sure that the compressed
sizes make sense.
* Add configs that test multithreading, LDM, and setting explicit
parameters.
* Update the `compress cctx` method to accept `ZSTD_parameters`.
* Compile against the multithreaded `libzstd.a`.
* Update `results.csv` for the new configs.
Unless you think there are more configs/methods I should test, I think
we have a fairly wide set of configs/methods, so I'll pause adding
more for now.
Compare the input and output files by their inode number and
refuse to open the output file if the input file is the same.
This doesn't work when (de)compressing multiple files to a single
file, but that is a very uncommon use case, mostly used for
benchmarking by me.
Fixes#1422.
* Fix `ZSTD_estimateCCtxSize()` with negative levels.
* Fix `ZSTD_estimateCStreamSize()` with negative levels.
* Add a unit test to test for this error.
The `--no-progress` flag disables zstd's progress bars, but leaves
the summary.
I've added simple tests to `playTests.sh` to make sure the parsing
works.
When we switched `ZSTD_SKIPPABLEHEADERSIZE` to a macro, the places where we do:
MEM_readLE32(ptr) + ZSTD_SKIPPABLEHEADERSIZE
can now overflow `(unsigned)-8` to `0` and we infinite loop. We now check
the frame size and reject sizes that overflow a U32.
Note that this bug never made it into a release, and was only in the dev branch
for a few days.
Credit to OSS-Fuzz
Dictionaries are prebuilt and saved as part of the data object.
The config decides whether or not to use the dictionary if it is
available. Configs that require dictionaries are only run with
data that have dictionaries. The method will skip configs that are
irrelevant, so for example ZSTD_compress() will skip configs with
dictionaries.
I've also trimmed the silesia source to 1MB per file (12 MB total),
and added 500 samples from the github data set with a dictionary.
I've intentionally added an extra line to the `results.csv` to make
the nightly build fail, so that we can see how CircleCI reports it.
Full list of changes:
* Add pre-built dictionaries to the data.
* Add `use_dictionary` and `no_pledged_src_size` flags to the config.
* Add a config using a dictionary for every level.
* Add a config that specifies no pledged source size.
* Support dictionaries and streaming in the `zstdcli` method.
* Add a context-reuse method using `ZSTD_compressCCtx()`.
* Clean up the formatting of the `results.csv` file to align columns.
* Add `--data`, `--config`, and `--method` flags to constrain each
to a particular value. This is useful for debugging a failure
or debugging a particular config/method/data.
The regression tests run nightly or on the `regression`
branch for convenience. The results get uploaded as the
artifacts of the job. If they change, check the diff
printed in the job. If all is well, download the new
results and commit them to the repo.
This code will only run on a UNIX like platform. It
could be made to run on Windows, but I don't think that
it is necessary. It also uses C99.
* data: This module defines the data to run tests on.
It downloads data from a URL into a cache directory,
checks it against a checksum, and unpacks it. It also
provides helpers for accessing the data.
* config: This module defines the configs to run tests
with. A config is a set of API parameters and a set of
CLI flags.
* result: This module is a helper for method that defines
the result type.
* method: This module defines the compression methods
to test. It is what runs the regression test using the
data and the config. It reports the total compressed
size, or an error/skip.
* test: This is the test binary that runs the tests for
every (data, config, method) tuple, and prints the
results to the output file and stderr.
* results.csv: The results that the current commit is
expected to produce.
We could allocate up to 2^28 bytes of memory when using 2 threads with
window log = 24. Now, we limit it to 2^26 bytes of memory when not running
big tests.
I chose max window log = 22 since that is the maximum source size when
big tests are disabled. Hopefully this will be enough to reduce or
eliminate the test failures.
* Updates CircleCI to use workflows.
We can now specify any number of test jobs to run in parallel.
* Switch the image to `buildpack-deps:trusty` which is only 500 MB
instead of 7 GB, so that saves 7 minutes to download it if it isn't
already cached on the host.
* Publish the source tarball and sha256sum as artifacts.
* If the `GITHUB_TOKEN` environment variable is set, we will also
add the tarball + sha256sum to the tagged release, after manual
approval.
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()`.
When the primary normalization method fails, and
`(1 << tableLog) == (maxSymbolValue + 1)`, and every symbol gets assigned
normalized weight 1 or -1 in the first loop, then the next division can
raise `SIGFPE`.
The correct parameters are used once, but once `ZSTD_resetCStream()` is
called the default parameters (level 3) are used. Fix this by setting
`requestedParams` in the `ZSTD_initCStream*()` functions.
The added tests both fail before this patch and pass after.
In the new advanced API, adjust the parameters even if they are explicitly
set. This mainly applies to the `windowLog`, and accordingly the `hashLog`
and `chainLog`, when the source size is known.
Nick Terrell