#pragma once #include #include #include namespace LZ4 { /** There are many implementation details of LZ4 decompression loop, that affect performance. * For example: copy by 8 or by 16 (SSE2) bytes at once; use shuffle (SSSE3) instruction to replicate match or not. * * The optimal algorithm is dependent on: * * 1. CPU architecture. * (example: on Skylake it's almost always better to copy by 16 bytes and use shuffle, * but on Westmere using shuffle is worse and copy by 16 bytes is better only for high compression ratios) * * 2. Data distribution. * (example: when compression ratio is higher than 10.20, * it's usually better to copy by 16 bytes rather than 8). * * It's very difficult to test all combinations on different CPUs and to choose correct rule to select best variant. * (Even if you do this, you have high chance to over-optimize for specific CPU while downgrading performance on another.) * * Instead of this, we choose best algorithm by using performance statistics * with something like "Bayesian Bandits" method. */ /** Both buffers passed to 'decompress' function must have * at least this amount of excessive bytes after end of data * that is allowed to read/write. * This value is a little overestimation. */ static constexpr size_t ADDITIONAL_BYTES_AT_END_OF_BUFFER = 64; /** When decompressing uniform sequence of blocks (for example, blocks from one file), * you can pass single PerformanceStatistics object to subsequent invocations of 'decompress' method. * It will accumulate statistics and use it as a feedback to choose best specialization of algorithm at runtime. * One PerformanceStatistics object cannot be used concurrently from different threads. */ struct PerformanceStatistics { struct Element { double count = 0; double sum = 0; double adjustedCount() const { return count - NUM_INVOCATIONS_TO_THROW_OFF; } double mean() const { return sum / adjustedCount(); } /// For better convergence, we don't use proper estimate of stddev. /// We want to eventually separate between two algorithms even in case /// when there is no statistical significant difference between them. double sigma() const { return mean() / sqrt(adjustedCount()); } void update(double seconds, double bytes) { ++count; if (count > NUM_INVOCATIONS_TO_THROW_OFF) sum += seconds / bytes; } double sample(pcg64 & stat_rng) const { /// If there is a variant with not enough statistics, always choose it. /// And in that case prefer variant with less number of invocations. if (adjustedCount() < 2) return adjustedCount() - 1; else return std::normal_distribution<>(mean(), sigma())(stat_rng); } }; /// Number of different algorithms to select from. static constexpr size_t NUM_ELEMENTS = 4; /// Cold invocations may be affected by additional memory latencies. Don't take first invocations into account. static constexpr double NUM_INVOCATIONS_TO_THROW_OFF = 2; /// How to select method to run. /// -1 - automatically, based on statistics (default); /// 0..3 - always choose specified method (for performance testing); /// -2 - choose methods in round robin fashion (for performance testing). ssize_t choose_method = -1; Element data[NUM_ELEMENTS]; pcg64 rng; /// To select from different algorithms we use a kind of "bandits" algorithm. /// Sample random values from estimated normal distributions and choose the minimal. size_t select() { if (choose_method < 0) { double samples[NUM_ELEMENTS]; for (size_t i = 0; i < NUM_ELEMENTS; ++i) samples[i] = choose_method == -1 ? data[i].sample(rng) : data[i].adjustedCount(); return std::min_element(samples, samples + NUM_ELEMENTS) - samples; } else return choose_method; } PerformanceStatistics() {} PerformanceStatistics(ssize_t choose_method) : choose_method(choose_method) {} }; /** This method dispatch to one of different implementations depending on performance statistics. */ void decompress( const char * const source, char * const dest, size_t source_size, size_t dest_size, PerformanceStatistics & statistics); /** Obtain statistics about LZ4 block useful for development. */ struct StreamStatistics { size_t num_tokens = 0; size_t sum_literal_lengths = 0; size_t sum_match_lengths = 0; size_t sum_match_offsets = 0; size_t count_match_offset_less_8 = 0; size_t count_match_offset_less_16 = 0; size_t count_match_replicate_itself = 0; void literal(size_t length); void match(size_t length, size_t offset); void print() const; }; void statistics( const char * const source, char * const dest, size_t dest_size, StreamStatistics & stat); }