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[PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format
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Szymon Janc |
Subject: |
[PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:01:16 +0100 |
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Hello,
New version of xz compression patch.
Changes since then:
- it works now :-)
- decoder dictionary can be enlarge up to DICT_BIT_SIZE defined in xz_lzma2.h
(currently set to 30 = 128MiB)
- xz uses crc32 from libgcrypt-grub, internal crc implementation removed
- removed linux kernel related code from xz
- get rid of some not needed memcpy() calls
- xzio.mod stuff made according to Vladimir's comments
- simplified wraper (only 1 file - xz_wrap.h)
- number of other improvments and tons of bugfixes
- files licence changed from public domain to gpl3+
This patch also changes gnulib-wrap.h true/false definitions to make them truly
constants.
TODO and other questions:
- lack of file seek support, if files is compressed with small block size, it
is
possible to implement pseudo-random access
- what is optimal i/o buffer size? like BUFSIZ macro in glibc
- default dictionary size should be chosen for files compression
- still need to do performance tests
- introduce some common layer for xzio/gzio etc ?
Comments are welcome
--
Szymon K. Janc
address@hidden // GG: 1383435
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- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Szymon Janc, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Szymon Janc, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, address@hidden, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Seth Goldberg, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, address@hidden, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Szymon Janc, 2010/02/16
- Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2010/02/16