From https://github.com/facebook/zstd
"Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression
algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level
and better compression ratios. It's backed by a very fast entropy stage,
provided by Huff0 and FSE library."
We require libzstd >= 1.0.0 so as to be able to use streaming compression
and decompression methods.
The default compression level we have selected is 9 (range goes from 1 to 22),
which experimentally offers equivalent or better compression ratio than
the default deflate/ZIP level of 6, and much faster compression.
For example on a 6600x4400 16bit image, tiffcp -c zip runs in 10.7 seconds,
while tiffcp -c zstd runs in 5.3 seconds. Decompression time for zip is
840 ms, and for zstd 650 ms. File size is 42735936 for zip, and
42586822 for zstd. Similar findings on other images.
On a 25894x16701 16bit image,
Compression time Decompression time File size
ZSTD 35 s 3.2 s 399 700 498
ZIP/Deflate 1m 20 s 4.9 s 419 622 336
0001-ci-Add-Travis-support-for-Linux-builds-with-Autoconf.patch by
Roger Leigh (sent to mailing list on 2017-06-08)
This patch adds support for the Travis-CI service.
* .appveyor.yml: new file from
0002-ci-Add-AppVeyor-support.patch by Roger Leigh (sent to mailing
list on 2017-06-08)
This patch adds a .appveyor.yml file to the top-level. This allows
one to opt in to having a branch built on Windows with Cygwin,
MinGW and MSVC automatically when a branch is pushed to GitHub,
GitLab, BitBucket or any other supported git hosting service.
* CMakeLists.txt, test/CMakeLists.txt, test/TiffTestCommon.cmake: apply
patch 0001-cmake-Improve-Cygwin-and-MingGW-test-support.patch from Roger
Leigh (sent to mailing list on 2017-06-08)
This patch makes the CMake build system support running the tests
with MinGW or Cygwin.
Roger Leigh (via tiff mailing list on 2015-09-01).
CMake build is now included in 'distcheck' target.
Builds with CMake 2.8.9 and newer.
Tar is now resquested to use POSIX PAX format.
Roger Leigh (via tiff mailing list on 2015-08-31.
CMake reads all version information directly from configure.ac to
avoid duplication of values. This basically greps over the file
for the LIBTIFF_* variables, then translates them to the form
needed for cmake. This includes the release version and libtool
shared library version information.
Make shared/static library building configurable. Currently it
always builds shared libraries, with static libs having a _static
suffix (copying zlib, but it means it's got a non-standard name).
CMake has a -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON|OFF option to select one or the
other, which is now used instead. There's now a single "tiff"
target to build either shared or static as required, and all the
tests and tools are linked with this. Note: the Windows tests fail
when linked with a static libtiff (says: libtiff.dll not found).
Not really a regression since this was not tested up to this
point, and it's likely the unit tests haven't (ever?) been run on
Windows with a static libtiff, so there's some additional
portability issue here to address. Works fine on UNIX systems,
and fine on Windows with the default to build a DLL.
Add a missing file which wasn't being distributed, causing unit
tests to fail. Note that "find . -name '*.cmake'" lists all the
CMake files which need distributing in addition to all the
CMakeLists.txt files (which now are distributed).
by Roger Leigh posted to tiff list on Wed, 1 Jul 2015 15:58:20
+0100.
* cmake: Add extra warning flags. Patch #2 of 3 by Roger Leigh
posted to tiff list on Wed, 1 Jul 2015 15:58:20 +0100.
* cmake: Correct snprintf fallback for VS2015. Patch #1 of 3 by
Roger Leigh posted to tiff list on Wed, 1 Jul 2015 15:58:20 +0100.
libtiff mailing list on Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:21:01 +0100. Several
corrections to ensure that the autotools build still works were
added by me. I have not yet tested the build using 'cmake' or
MSVC with 'nmake'.
