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author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2022-11-14 21:34:57 +0200 |
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committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2022-11-14 23:05:46 +0200 |
commit | f644473a211394447824ea00518d0a214ff3f7f2 (patch) | |
tree | 8fc19fa7f3811b090f3f73398ce8bd0708d10a53 /COPYING | |
parent | Translations: Update the Swedish translation one more time. (diff) | |
download | xz-f644473a211394447824ea00518d0a214ff3f7f2.tar.xz |
liblzma: Add fast CRC64 for 32/64-bit x86 using SSSE3 + SSE4.1 + CLMUL.
It also works on E2K as it supports these intrinsics.
On x86-64 runtime detection is used so the code keeps working on
older processors too. A CLMUL-only build can be done by using
-msse4.1 -mpclmul in CFLAGS and this will reduce the library
size since the generic implementation and its 8 KiB lookup table
will be omitted.
On 32-bit x86 this isn't used by default for now because by default
on 32-bit x86 the separate assembly file crc64_x86.S is used.
If --disable-assembler is used then this new CLMUL code is used
the same way as on 64-bit x86. However, a CLMUL-only build
(-msse4.1 -mpclmul) won't omit the 8 KiB lookup table on
32-bit x86 due to a currently-missing check for disabled
assembler usage.
The configure.ac check should be such that the code won't be
built if something in the toolchain doesn't support it but
--disable-clmul-crc option can be used to unconditionally
disable this feature.
CLMUL speeds up decompression of files that have compressed very
well (assuming CRC64 is used as a check type). It is know that
the CLMUL code is significantly slower than the generic code for
tiny inputs (especially 1-8 bytes but up to 16 bytes). If that
is a real-world problem then there is already a commented-out
variant that uses the generic version for small inputs.
Thanks to Ilya Kurdyukov for the original patch which was
derived from a white paper from Intel [1] (published in 2009)
and public domain code from [2] (released in 2016).
[1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/fast-crc-computation-generic-polynomials-pclmulqdq-paper.pdf
[2] https://github.com/rawrunprotected/crc
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