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ddidderr 0a6a5f5267 feat(rust): port Huffman compression
Move Huffman table construction, table serialization, and one- and
four-stream payload encoding from huf_compress.c into the Rust compatibility
archive.  The declaration-only C shim preserves the existing internal ABI,
so the remaining C compressor can call the migrated implementation unchanged.

The translation keeps CTable layouts, workspace checks, repeat-table
selection, and bitstream output compatible with the original encoder.  This
lets native C consumers exercise the Rust implementation through libzstd.

Test Plan:
- cargo clippy, cargo clippy --benches, and cargo clippy --tests
- cargo +nightly fmt and cargo test --all-targets (88 passed)
- cargo check --no-default-features --features compression
- rebuild and run tests fuzzer, zstreamtest, and invalidDictionaries
- compare tables, headers, and 1X/4X streams with a renamed pristine C build

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# Rust rewrite
This directory contains the in-progress Rust replacement for the zstd library
and command-line program. During the migration, the crate is built as a static
library and linked into the original C test programs. Production C translation
units become declaration-only shims as their implementations move to Rust; the
original C tests remain unchanged and provide compatibility coverage.
## Component map
The crate is organized from low-level representation helpers toward the public
zstd ABI:
- Common primitives
- `mem`, `bits`, `bitstream`, and `cpu` implement byte-order, bitstream, and
target-feature operations used by the codecs.
- `errors`, `debug`, `xxhash`, and `zstd_common` provide common exported ABI
functions and state.
- `common` contains shared frame constants and internal data types.
- Entropy coding
- `entropy_common` reads FSE normalized counts and Huffman statistics.
- `fse_decompress` builds FSE decoding tables and decodes FSE streams.
- `fse_compress` normalizes counts, writes FSE headers, builds compression
tables, and encodes FSE streams.
- `huf_compress` builds Huffman compression tables, writes table headers,
and encodes one- and four-stream Huffman payloads.
- `huf_decompress` builds Huffman decoding tables and decodes X1 and X2
Huffman streams.
- Compression primitives
- `hist` counts byte frequencies for FSE and Huffman compression.
- `zstd_presplit` chooses split points for full compression blocks.
- Runtime support
- `threading` provides platform pthread wrappers required by zstd headers.
- `pool` implements the bounded worker pool used by multithreaded compression.
- Dictionary support
- `zstd_ddict` owns, loads, copies, and references decode dictionaries.
The remaining block compression, general decompression, dictionary-building,
legacy, and CLI translation units are still C. They must move before the
rewrite is complete. Keeping that boundary explicit prevents a passing hybrid
build from being mistaken for the final all-Rust result.
## Compatibility boundary
The public ABI continues to come from the existing headers under `lib/`.
Exported Rust functions therefore use C layout and calling conventions. A C
source file whose implementation has moved to Rust remains in the original
makefile source list as a small shim so header configuration and platform
preprocessor behavior stay available during the transition.
The library, test, and program makefiles select an archive directory for the
active C configuration: enabled compression/decompression modules, default or
forced HUF X1/X2, and the matching Rust target for 32-bit C binaries. The
native static archive flattens Rust object members rather than nesting a Rust
archive, while the native shared library retains all migrated Rust exports.
When the HUF mode changes, the test and program paths also rebuild cached C
outputs before linking. This prevents original C tests from using a stale or
configuration-incompatible implementation.
## Validation
Run focused Rust checks from this directory:
```sh
cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --all-targets
cargo build --release
```
Then run original compatibility tests from the repository root, starting with
the narrow target for the component being migrated. For example:
```sh
make -C tests fuzzer
./tests/fuzzer -i1 --no-big-tests
make -C tests test-rust-lib-smoke
```
Broader `tests/Makefile` targets remain the authoritative integration gates as
more of the library and CLI are rewritten.