From 02b6cf579f02ec78c052735020a5d3c5723ed641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Adler Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 23:20:07 -0700 Subject: zlib 1.1.1 --- README | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 5aacb53..acaea4f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -zlib 1.1.0 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code +zlib 1.1.1 is a general purpose data compression library. All the code is thread safe. The data format used by the zlib library is described by RFCs (Request for Comments) 1950 to 1952 in the files ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1950.txt (zlib format), rfc1951.txt (deflate @@ -25,15 +25,14 @@ Mark Nelson wrote an article about zlib for the Jan. 1997 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal; a copy of the article is available in http://web2.airmail.net/markn/articles/zlibtool/zlibtool.htm -The changes made in version 1.1.0 are documented in the file ChangeLog. -The main changes since 1.0.9 are: +The changes made in version 1.1.1 are documented in the file ChangeLog. +The main changes since 1.1.0 are: -- do not return STREAM_END prematurely in inflate (John Bowler) -- revert to the zlib 1.0.8 inflate to avoid the gcc 2.8.0 bug (Jeremy Buhler) -- compile with -DFASTEST to get compression code optimized for speed only -- in minigzip, try mmap'ing the input file first (Miguel Albrecht) -- increase size of I/O buffers in minigzip.c and gzio.c (not a big gain - on Sun but significant on HP) +- fix macros _tr_tally_* in deflate.h for debug mode (Glenn Randers-Pehrson) +- remove block truncation heuristic which had very marginal effect for zlib + (smaller lit_bufsize than in gzip 1.2.4) and degraded a little the + compression ratio on some files. This also allows inlining _tr_tally for + matches in deflate_slow. Unsupported third party contributions are provided in directory "contrib". -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb