emmanuel-marty/apultra

📋 Changes

• Add missing error message, when failing to write output file
• Fixes for some error handling code

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• Compress another 3.5% faster, on average

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• Compress a bit faster again
• Fix potential bug (not seen in production)

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• Compress yet another 5% faster (the compressed output is unchanged)

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• Compress another 5% faster (the compressed output is unchanged)
• Small ratio increase for some files

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• Compress slightly faster (the compressed output is unchanged)
• Important fix for the 68000 depacker (reported by arnaud-carre)

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• Compress 5% faster again, on average (the compressed output is unchanged)

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• Tiny compression ratio increase for some small files
• Small ratio increase for some files > 64 Kb
• Fix warnings for some older compilers

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• Slightly increase compression ratio for some files

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• Compress yet another 5% faster on average, compared to v1.3.6 (the compressed output is still unchanged)
• New 68000 decompressor
• Fix Makefile to not create an empty folder, when building from source

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• Compress another 5% faster on average, compared to v1.3.5 (the compressed output is unchanged)
• New 6502 backwards decompressor, optimized for speed
• Major improvements to size and speed for 6809 depackers, contributed by Doug Masten
• Similar improvements to H6309 depackers, also by Doug Masten
• Fix suboptimal compression when using '-w' option to limit the max offset/window size
• Avoid C99 in command-line tool, in order to build with older compilers

📋 Changes

• Compress another 10% faster compared to v1.3.4 (the compressed output is unchanged)
• apultra v1.3.5 is 2X faster than v1.2.1 while compressing better

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• Slightly higher compression ratio for some input files
• Compress 25% faster on average, compared to v1.3.3

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• Increase compression ratio slightly for some input files
• Compress large files (> 1 MB) 5% faster on average, compared to v1.3.2
• Speed- and size-optimizations to the 6809 depackers, contributed by Doug Masten
• New Hitachi 6309 depacker (derived from the 6809 code), thanks to Doug Masten

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• Compress 20% faster on average, compared to v1.3.1 (the compressed output is identical)
• Reduce memory used to compress large input files (> 1 MB) by 50%
• Fix -stats display
• Add 32-bit Windows build
• Add 6809 depackers (forward and backward) for the Tandy CoCo, Dragon 32/64, Thomson computers, Vectrex..

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• Support dictionary compression (you will need to stick the dictionary in front of your decompression buffer, or after it if decompressing backwards)
• Compress another 20% faster on average, compared to v1.3.0 (the compressed output is still unchanged)
• Update the z80 depacker to be 4% faster (18% faster than the previous fastest z80 aPLib decompressor)
• Support backward decompression in the z80 depacker

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• Support backward compression using the -b flag (you will need to use a backward depacker)
• Compress 20% faster on average (the compressed output is unchanged)

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• Compress some files slightly better

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• Another small increase in compression ratio
• New, state of the art z80 depackers by spke
• Size-optimized version of the 8088 depacker
• Faster and smaller speed-optimized 8088 depacker

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• Small increase in compression ratio for some files
• Show safety distance when using the -stats option
• 8088 depacker
• Fast 6502 depacker, contributed by jbrandwood
• Z80 and ARM7TDMI depackers, contributed by Dwedit

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• Small increase in compression ratio
• Speed up compression
• Reduce memory use for small files

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• Increase compression ratio by another 0.03%

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• Increase compression ratio further

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• Small compression ratio increase

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• Increase compression ratio
• Reduce memory use
• Fix inefficiency in merging very large matches

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• Increase overall compression ratio

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• Increase compression ratio for large files
• Decrease overall memory use

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• Minor efficiency fixes, slightly increased compression ratio

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• Initial release