Every 256 bytes the lazy match finders process without finding a match,
they will increase their step size by 1. So for bytes [0, 256) they search
every position, for bytes [256, 512) they search every other position,
and so on. However, they currently still insert every position into
their hash tables. This is different from fast & dfast, which only
insert the positions they search.
This PR changes that, so now after we've searched 2KB without finding
any matches, at which point we'll only be searching one in 9 positions,
we'll stop inserting every position, and only insert the positions we
search. The exact cutoff of 2KB isn't terribly important, I've just
selected a cutoff that is reasonably large, to minimize the impact on
"normal" data.
This PR only adds skipping to greedy, lazy, and lazy2, but does not
touch btlazy2.
| Dataset | Level | Compiler | CSize ∆ | Speed ∆ |
|---------|-------|--------------|---------|---------|
| Random | 5 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | +704% |
| Random | 5 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | +670% |
| Random | 7 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | +679% |
| Random | 7 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | +657% |
| Random | 12 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | +1355% |
| Random | 12 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | +1331% |
| Silesia | 5 | clang-14.0.6 | +0.002% | +0.35% |
| Silesia | 5 | gcc-12.2.0 | +0.002% | +2.45% |
| Silesia | 7 | clang-14.0.6 | +0.001% | -1.40% |
| Silesia | 7 | gcc-12.2.0 | +0.007% | +0.13% |
| Silesia | 12 | clang-14.0.6 | +0.011% | +22.70% |
| Silesia | 12 | gcc-12.2.0 | +0.011% | -6.68% |
| Enwik8 | 5 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | -1.02% |
| Enwik8 | 5 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | +0.34% |
| Enwik8 | 7 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | -1.22% |
| Enwik8 | 7 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | -0.72% |
| Enwik8 | 12 | clang-14.0.6 | 0.0% | +26.19% |
| Enwik8 | 12 | gcc-12.2.0 | 0.0% | -5.70% |
The speed difference for clang at level 12 is real, but is probably
caused by some sort of alignment or codegen issues. clang is
significantly slower than gcc before this PR, but gets up to parity with
it.
I also measured the ratio difference for the HC match finder, and it
looks basically the same as the row-based match finder. The speedup on
random data looks similar. And performance is about neutral, without the
big difference at level 12 for either clang or gcc.
In Python 3.x, a single element of a bytes array is returned as
an integer number. Thus, NEWLINE is an int variable, and attempting
to add it to the line array will fail with a type mismatch error
that may be demonstrated as follows:
[roam@straylight ~]$ python3 -c 'b"hello" + b"\n"[0]'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can't concat int to bytes
[roam@straylight ~]$
* Mark all bufferless and block level functions as deprecated
* Update documentation to suggest not using these functions
* Add `_deprecated()` wrappers for functions that we use internally and
call those instead
* patch-from speed optimization: only load portion of dictionary into normal matchfinders
* test regression for x8 multiplier
* fix off-by-one error for bit shift bound
* restrict patchfrom speed optimization to strategy < ZSTD_btultra
* update results.csv
* update regression test
Part 2 of #3528
Adds hash salt that helps to avoid regressions where consecutive compressions use the same tag space with similar data (running zstd -b5e7 enwik8 -B128K reproduces this regression).
- Adds memory type that is guaranteed to have been initialized at least once in the workspace's lifetime.
- Changes tag space in row hash to be based on init once memory.
#3543 decreases the size of the tagTable by a factor of 2, which requires using the first tag position in each row for head position instead of a tag.
Although position 0 stopped being a valid match, it still persisted in mask calculation resulting in the matches loops possibly terminating before it should have. The fix skips position 0 to solve this problem.
Allocate half the memory for tag space, which means that we get one less slot for an actual tag (needs to be used for next position index).
The results is a slight loss in compression ratio (up to 0.2%) and some regressions/improvements to speed depending on level and sample. In turn, we get to save 16% of the hash table's space (5 bytes per entry instead of 6 bytes per entry).
As reported by @P-E-Meunier in https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/2662#issuecomment-1443836186,
seekable format ingestion speed can be particularly slow
when selected `FRAME_SIZE` is very small,
especially in combination with the recent row_hash compression mode.
The specific scenario mentioned was `pijul`,
using frame sizes of 256 bytes and level 10.
This is improved in this PR,
by providing approximate parameter adaptation to the compression process.
Tested locally on a M1 laptop,
ingestion of `enwik8` using `pijul` parameters
went from 35sec. (before this PR) to 2.5sec (with this PR).
For the specific corner case of a file full of zeroes,
this is even more pronounced, going from 45sec. to 0.5sec.
These benefits are unrelated to (and come on top of) other improvement efforts currently being made by @yoniko for the row_hash compression method specifically.
The `seekable_compress` test program has been updated to allows setting compression level,
in order to produce these performance results.
* Add ZSTD_setFParams() and ZSTD_setParams()
* Modify ZSTD_setCParams() to use ZSTD_setParameter() to avoid a second path setting parameters
* Add unit tests
* Update documentation to suggest using them to replace deprecated functions
Fixes#3396.
- Initializes clevel in `ZSTD_CCtxParams_init`
- Adds CI workflow for msan fuzzers runs without optimization (`-O0`)
- Fixes Makefile to correctly pass on user defined `MOREFLAGS` and `FUZZER_FLAGS` in cases they have been overwritten
The block splitter confuses sequences with literal length == 65536 that use a
repeat offset code. It interprets this as literal length == 0 when deciding the
meaning of the repeat offset, and corrupts the repeat offset history. This is
benign, merely causing suboptimal compression performance, if the confused
history is flushed before the end of the block, e.g. if there are 3 consecutive
non-repeat code sequences after the mistake. It also is only triggered if the
block splitter decided to split the block.
All that to say: This is a rare bug, and requires quite a few conditions to
trigger. However, the good news is that if you have a way to validate that the
decompressed data is correct, e.g. you've enabled zstd's checksum or have a
checksum elsewhere, the original data is very likely recoverable. So if you were
affected by this bug please reach out.
The fix is to remind the block splitter that the literal length is actually 64K.
The test case is a bit tricky to set up, but I've managed to reproduce the issue.
Thanks to @danlark1 for alerting us to the issue and providing us a reproducer!
fix#3500
CMake 3.18 or later was required by #3392. Because it uses
`CheckLinkerFlag`. But requiring CMake 3.18 or later is a bit
aggressive. Because Ubuntu 20.04 LTS still uses CMake 3.16.3:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=cmake
This change disables `-z noexecstack` check with old CMake. This will
not break any existing users. Because users who need `-z noexecstack`
must already use CMake 3.18 or later.
