AOCL-Compression 4.2
Highlights of this release
- Single-threaded performance improvements for LZ4, LZ4HC, LZMA, ZLIB, and ZSTD
- Multi-threaded compression and decompression support for LZ4, Snappy, ZLIB and ZSTD
- Support to select specific ISA for execution using environment variables
- Support for LOG mechanism using environment variables
- XZ utils interface support for basic APIs for LZMA Method
- Improved unit testing of the library by adding new test cases
- Support for VALGRIND and ASAN tools added to detect memory related errors
- Support for GCOV tool added to measure source code coverage
- Support to test the native APIs for compression methods directly from test bench
- Test bench support to decompress large files and dump output files with standard extension
- Added support for standard library naming of the supported compression methods using symbolic link
- AOCL-Compression’s ZLIB and ZSTD reference versions (opensource) upgraded to versions v1.3 and v1.5.5 respectively
- Refactoring and code alignment
- Multiple bug fixes