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authorNick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>2019-07-31 06:40:58 (GMT)
committerNick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>2019-07-31 17:17:26 (GMT)
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[lz4hc] Only allow chain swapping forwards
When the match is very long and found quickly, we can do matchLength * nbCompares iterations through the chain swapping, which can really slow down compression.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/lz4hc.c b/lib/lz4hc.c
index 596888a..0608ec6 100644
--- a/lib/lz4hc.c
+++ b/lib/lz4hc.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ LZ4HC_InsertAndGetWiderMatch (
if (matchIndex + (U32)longest <= ipIndex) {
U32 distanceToNextMatch = 1;
int pos;
- for (pos = 0; pos <= longest - MINMATCH; ++pos) {
+ for (pos = matchChainPos; pos <= longest - MINMATCH; ++pos) {
U32 const candidateDist = DELTANEXTU16(chainTable, matchIndex + (U32)pos);
if (candidateDist > distanceToNextMatch) {
distanceToNextMatch = candidateDist;