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1 | zlib 1.1.0 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code | 1 | zlib 1.1.1 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code |
2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library | 2 | is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library |
3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files | 3 | is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files |
4 | ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate | 4 | ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate |
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25 | Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in | 25 | Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in |
26 | http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm | 26 | http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm |
27 | 27 | ||
28 | The changes made in version 1.1.0 are documented in the file ChangeLog. | 28 | The changes made in version 1.1.1 are documented in the file ChangeLog. |
29 | The main changes since 1.0.9 are: | 29 | The main changes since 1.1.0 are: |
30 | 30 | ||
31 | - do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler) | 31 | - fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) |
32 | - revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler) | 32 | - remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib |
33 | - compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only | 33 | (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the |
34 | - in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht) | 34 | compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for |
35 | - increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain | 35 | matches in deflate_slow. |
36 | on Sun but significant on HP) | ||
37 | 36 | ||
38 | 37 | ||
39 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". | 38 | Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". |