A minor change in 5434de0 changed a `<=` into a `<`,
and as an indirect consequence allowed compression attempt of literals when there are only 6 literals to compress
(previous limit was effectively 7 literals).
This is not in itself a problem, as the threshold is merely an heuristic,
but it emerged a bug that has always been there, and was just never triggered so far due to the previous limit.
This bug would make the literal compressor believes that all literals are the same symbol,
but for the exact case where nbLiterals==6, plus a pretty wild combination of other limit conditions,
this outcome could be false, resulting in data corruption.
Replaced the blind heuristic by an actual test for all limit cases,
so that even if the threshold is changed again in the future,
the detection of RLE mode will remain reliable.
fix#3328
In situations where the alphabet size is very small,
the evaluation of literal costs from the Optimal Parser is initially incorrect.
It takes some time to converge, during which compression is less efficient.
This is especially important for small files,
because there will not be enough data to converge,
so most of the parsing is selected based on incorrect metrics.
After this patch, the scenario ##3328 gets fixed,
delivering the expected 29 bytes compressed size (smallest known compressed size).
```
for f in $(find . \( -path ./.git -o -path ./tests/fuzz/corpora \) -prune -o -type f);
do
sed -i 's/Facebook, Inc\./Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates./' $f;
done
```
* Switch to yearless copyright per FB policy
* Fix up SPDX-License-Identifier lines in `contrib/linux-kernel` sources
* Add zstd copyright/license header to the `contrib/linux-kernel` sources
* Update the `tests/test-license.py` to check for yearless copyright
* Improvements to `tests/test-license.py`
* Check `contrib/linux-kernel` in `tests/test-license.py`
* All copyright lines now have -2020 instead of -present
* All copyright lines include "Facebook, Inc"
* All licenses are now standardized
The copyright in `threading.{h,c}` is not changed because it comes from
zstdmt.
The copyright and license of `divsufsort.{h,c}` is not changed.
