in this version, literal compression is always disabled for ZSTD_fast strategy.
Performance parity between ZSTD_compress_advanced() and ZSTD_compress_generic()
result of ZSTD_compress_advanced()
is different from ZSTD_compress_generic()
when using negative compression levels
because the disabling of huffman compression is not passed in parameters.
The (pretty old) code inside ZSTD_compress()
was making some pretty bold assumptions
on what's inside a CCtx and how to init it.
This is pretty fragile by design.
CCtx content evolve.
Knowledge of how to handle that should be concentrate in one place.
A side effect of this strategy
is that ZSTD_compress() wouldn't check for BMI2 capability,
and is therefore missing out some potential speed opportunity.
This patch makes ZSTD_compress() use
the same initialization and release functions
as the normal creator / destructor ones.
Measured on my laptop, with a custom version of bench
manually modified to use ZSTD_compress() (instead of the advanced API) :
This patch :
1#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 73651053 (2.878), 312.2 MB/s , 723.8 MB/s
2#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 70163650 (3.021), 226.2 MB/s , 649.8 MB/s
3#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 66996749 (3.164), 169.4 MB/s , 636.7 MB/s
4#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 65998319 (3.212), 136.7 MB/s , 619.2 MB/s
dev branch :
1#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 73651053 (2.878), 291.7 MB/s , 727.5 MB/s
2#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 70163650 (3.021), 216.2 MB/s , 655.7 MB/s
3#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 66996749 (3.164), 162.2 MB/s , 633.1 MB/s
4#silesia.tar : 211984896 -> 65998319 (3.212), 130.6 MB/s , 618.6 MB/s
when parameters are "equivalent",
the context is re-used in continue mode,
hence needed workspace size is not recalculated.
This incidentally also evades the size-down check and action.
This patch intercepts the "continue mode"
so that the size-down check and action is actually triggered.
recently introduce into the new dictionary mode.
The bug could be reproduced with this command :
./zstreamtest -v --opaqueapi --no-big-tests -s4092 -t639
error was in function ZSTD_count_2segments() :
the beginning of the 2nd segment corresponds to prefixStart
and not the beginning of the current block (istart == src).
This would result in comparing the wrong byte.
removed "cached" structure.
prices are now saved in the optimal table.
Primarily done for simplification.
Might improve speed by a little.
But actually, and surprisingly, also improves ratio in some circumstances.
recent experienced showed that
default distribution table for offset
can get it wrong pretty quickly with the nb of symbols,
while it remains a reasonable choice much longer for lengths symbols.
Changed the formula,
so that dynamic threshold is now 32 symbols for offsets.
It remains at 64 symbols for lengths.
Detection based on defaultNormLog
zstd rejects blocks which do not compress by at least a certain amount.
In which case, such block is simply emitted uncompressed (even if a little bit of compression could be achieved).
This is better for decompression speed, hence for energy.
The logic is controlled by ZSTD_minGain().
The rule is applied uniformly, at all compression levels.
This change makes btultra accepts blocks with poor compression ratios.
We presume that users of btultra mode prefers compression ratio over some decompress speed gains.
The threshold for minimum gain is lowered for btultra
from s>>6 (~1.5% minimum gain)
to s>>7 (~0.8% minimum gain).
This is a prudent change.
Not sure if it's large enough.
