From 6a4ba5d3976f6d219400a46c634dd479bc5981a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Schwabe Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:28:05 +0200 Subject: Update lzo version --- lzo/doc/LZO.FAQ | 10 +++++----- lzo/doc/LZO.TXT | 29 +++++++++++++++-------------- lzo/doc/LZOAPI.TXT | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- lzo/doc/LZOTEST.TXT | 10 +++++----- 4 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) (limited to 'lzo/doc') diff --git a/lzo/doc/LZO.FAQ b/lzo/doc/LZO.FAQ index 604c98fa..cb1f38aa 100644 --- a/lzo/doc/LZO.FAQ +++ b/lzo/doc/LZO.FAQ @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Because of historical reasons - I want to support unlimited backward compatibility. Don't get misled by the size of the library - using one algorithm -increases the size of your application by only a few kB. +increases the size of your application by only a few KiB. If you just want to add a little bit of data compression to your application you may be looking for miniLZO. @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ What's the difference between the decompressors per algorithm ? Once again let's use LZO1X for explanation: - lzo1x_decompress - The `standard' decompressor. Pretty fast - use this whenever possible. + The 'standard' decompressor. Pretty fast - use this whenever possible. This decompressor expects valid compressed data. If the compressed data gets corrupted somehow (e.g. transmission @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Once again let's use LZO1X for explanation: your application because absolutely no additional checks are done. - lzo1x_decompress_safe - The `safe' decompressor. Somewhat slower. + The 'safe' decompressor. Somewhat slower. This decompressor will catch all compressed data violations and return an error code in this case - it will never crash. @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Once again let's use LZO1X for explanation: Notes: ------ - When using a safe decompressor you must pass the number of - bytes available in `dst' via the parameter `dst_len'. + bytes available in 'dst' via the parameter 'dst_len'. - If you want to be sure that your data is not corrupted you must use a checksum - just using the safe decompressor is not enough, @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ So after verifying that everything works fine you can try if activating the LZO_ALIGNED_OK_4 macro improves LZO1X and LZO1Y decompression performance. Change the file config.h accordingly and recompile everything. -On a i386 architecture you should evaluate the assembler versions. +On an i386 architecture you should evaluate the assembler versions. How can I reduce memory requirements when (de)compressing ? diff --git a/lzo/doc/LZO.TXT b/lzo/doc/LZO.TXT index addf4303..7426ab2b 100644 --- a/lzo/doc/LZO.TXT +++ b/lzo/doc/LZO.TXT @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Author : Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ - Version : 2.03 - Date : 30 Apr 2008 + Version : 2.06 + Date : 12 Aug 2011 Abstract @@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ - Decompression is simple and *very* fast. - Requires no memory for decompression. - Compression is pretty fast. - - Requires 64 kB of memory for compression. + - Requires 64 KiB of memory for compression. - Allows you to dial up extra compression at a speed cost in the compressor. The speed of the decompressor is not reduced. - Includes compression levels for generating pre-compressed data which achieve a quite competitive compression ratio. - - There is also a compression level which needs only 8 kB for compression. + - There is also a compression level which needs only 8 KiB for compression. - Algorithm is thread safe. - Algorithm is lossless. @@ -69,12 +69,12 @@ ----------- To keep you interested, here is an overview of the average results when compressing the Calgary Corpus test suite with a blocksize - of 256 kB, originally done on an ancient Intel Pentium 133. + of 256 KiB, originally done on an ancient Intel Pentium 133. The naming convention of the various algorithms goes LZOxx-N, where N is the compression level. Range 1-9 indicates the fast standard levels using - 64 kB memory for compression. Level 99 offers better compression at the - cost of more memory (256 kB), and is still reasonably fast. + 64 KiB memory for compression. Level 99 offers better compression at the + cost of more memory (256 KiB), and is still reasonably fast. Level 999 achieves nearly optimal compression - but it is slow and uses much memory, and is mainly intended for generating pre-compressed data. @@ -154,12 +154,12 @@ and long literal runs so that it produces good results on highly redundant data and deals acceptably with non-compressible data. - When dealing with uncompressible data, LZO expands the input - block by a maximum of 16 bytes per 1024 bytes input. + When dealing with incompressible data, LZO expands the input + block by a maximum of 64 bytes per 1024 bytes input. I have verified LZO using such tools as valgrind and other memory checkers. And in addition to compressing gigabytes of files when tuning some parameters - I have also consulted various `lint' programs to spot potential portability + I have also consulted various 'lint' programs to spot potential portability problems. LZO is free of any known bugs. @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ As the many object files are mostly independent of each other, the size overhead for an executable statically linked with the LZO library - is usually pretty low (just a few kB) because the linker will only add + is usually pretty low (just a few KiB) because the linker will only add the modules that you are actually using. I first published LZO1 and LZO1A in the Internet newsgroups @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ Some comments about the source code ----------------------------------- - Be warned: the main source code in the `src' directory is a + Be warned: the main source code in the 'src' directory is a real pain to understand as I've experimented with hundreds of slightly different versions. It contains many #if and some gotos, and is *completely optimized for speed* and not for readability. @@ -277,8 +277,9 @@ Copyright --------- - LZO is Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer + LZO is Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, + 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 + Markus Franz Xaver Oberhumer . LZO is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING. diff --git a/lzo/doc/LZOAPI.TXT b/lzo/doc/LZOAPI.TXT index 8d285845..5ae73532 100644 --- a/lzo/doc/LZOAPI.TXT +++ b/lzo/doc/LZOAPI.TXT @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Table of Contents 1.1 Preliminary notes --------------------- -- `C90' is short for ISO 9899-1990, the ANSI/ISO standard for the C +- 'C90' is short for ISO 9899-1990, the ANSI/ISO standard for the C programming language @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ old Atari ST, which has 16 bit integers and a flat 32-bit memory model. Using 'huge' 32-bit pointers under 16-bit DOS is a workaround for this. While LZO also works with a strict 16-bit memory model, I don't officially -support this because this limits the maximum block size to 64 kB - and this +support this because this limits the maximum block size to 64 KiB - and this makes the library incompatible with other platforms, i.e. you cannot decompress larger blocks compressed on those platforms. @@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ int lzo_init ( void ); 3.2 Compression --------------- -All compressors compress the memory block at `src' with the uncompressed -length `src_len' to the address given by `dst'. +All compressors compress the memory block at 'src' with the uncompressed +length 'src_len' to the address given by 'dst'. The length of the compressed blocked will be returned in the variable -pointed by `dst_len'. +pointed by 'dst_len'. The two blocks may overlap under certain conditions (see examples/overlap.c), thereby allowing "in-place" compression. @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ int lzo1x_1_compress ( const lzo_bytep src, lzo_uint src_len, Algorithm: LZO1X Compression level: LZO1X-1 - Memory requirements: LZO1X_1_MEM_COMPRESS (64 kB on 32-bit machines) + Memory requirements: LZO1X_1_MEM_COMPRESS (64 KiB on 32-bit machines) This compressor is pretty fast. @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int lzo1x_999_compress ( const lzo_bytep src, lzo_uint src_len, Algorithm: LZO1X Compression level: LZO1X-999 - Memory requirements: LZO1X_999_MEM_COMPRESS (448 kB on 32-bit machines) + Memory requirements: LZO1X_999_MEM_COMPRESS (448 KiB on 32-bit machines) This compressor is quite slow but achieves a good compression ratio. It is mainly intended for generating pre-compressed data. @@ -212,14 +212,14 @@ int lzo1x_999_compress ( const lzo_bytep src, lzo_uint src_len, 3.3 Decompression ----------------- -All decompressors decompress the memory block at `src' with the compressed -length `src_len' to the address given by `dst'. +All decompressors decompress the memory block at 'src' with the compressed +length 'src_len' to the address given by 'dst'. The length of the decompressed block will be returned in the variable -pointed by `dst_len' - on error the number of bytes that have +pointed by 'dst_len' - on error the number of bytes that have been decompressed so far will be returned. The safe decompressors expect that the number of bytes available in -the `dst' block is passed via the variable pointed by `dst_len'. +the 'dst' block is passed via the variable pointed by 'dst_len'. The two blocks may overlap under certain conditions (see examples/overlap.c), thereby allowing "in-place" decompression. @@ -233,25 +233,25 @@ Description of return values: LZO_E_INPUT_NOT_CONSUMED The end of the compressed block has been detected before all bytes in the compressed block have been used. - This may actually not be an error (if `src_len' is too large). + This may actually not be an error (if 'src_len' is too large). LZO_E_INPUT_OVERRUN The decompressor requested more bytes from the compressed block than available. - Your data is corrupted (or `src_len' is too small). + Your data is corrupted (or 'src_len' is too small). LZO_E_OUTPUT_OVERRUN The decompressor requested to write more bytes to the uncompressed block than available. Either your data is corrupted, or you should increase the number of - available bytes passed in the variable pointed by `dst_len'. + available bytes passed in the variable pointed by 'dst_len'. LZO_E_LOOKBEHIND_OVERRUN Your data is corrupted. LZO_E_EOF_NOT_FOUND No EOF code was found in the compressed block. - Your data is corrupted (or `src_len' is too small). + Your data is corrupted (or 'src_len' is too small). LZO_E_ERROR Any other error (data corrupted). diff --git a/lzo/doc/LZOTEST.TXT b/lzo/doc/LZOTEST.TXT index c5ec5052..93c86591 100644 --- a/lzo/doc/LZOTEST.TXT +++ b/lzo/doc/LZOTEST.TXT @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -The test driver `lzotest' has grown into a fairly powerful program +The test driver 'lzotest' has grown into a fairly powerful program of it's own. Here is a short description of the various options. [ to be written - this is only a very first draft ] @@ -22,16 +22,16 @@ Basic options: -A use assembler decompressor (if available) -F use fast assembler decompressor (if available) -O optimize compressed data (if available) - -s DIR process Calgary Corpus test suite in directory `DIR' + -s DIR process Calgary Corpus test suite in directory 'DIR' -@ read list of files to compress from stdin -q be quiet -L display software license -More about `-m': +More about '-m': ================ -Use `-m' to list all available methods. +Use '-m' to list all available methods. You can select methods by number: -m71 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ You can specify multiple methods/groups separated by ',': -m1,2,3,4 -m1,2,3,4,lzo1x-1,m99,81 -And finally you can use multiple `-m' options: +And finally you can use multiple '-m' options: -m962,972 -mm99,982,m1 -- cgit v1.2.3