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| 1 // Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. |
| 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be |
| 3 // found in the LICENSE file. |
| 4 |
| 5 // A DifferenceEstimator class provides a means for quickly estimating the |
| 6 // difference between two regions of memory. |
| 7 |
| 8 #ifndef COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_ |
| 9 #define COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_ |
| 10 |
| 11 #include <vector> |
| 12 |
| 13 #include "courgette/region.h" |
| 14 |
| 15 namespace courgette { |
| 16 |
| 17 // A DifferenceEstimator simplifies the task of determining which 'Subject' byte |
| 18 // strings (stored in regions of memory) are good matches to existing 'Base' |
| 19 // regions. The ultimate measure would be to try full differential compression |
| 20 // and measure the output size, but an estimate that correlates well with the |
| 21 // full compression is more efficient. |
| 22 // |
| 23 // The measure is asymmetric, if the Subject is a small substring of the Base |
| 24 // then it should match very well. |
| 25 // |
| 26 // The comparison is staged: first make Base and Subject objects for the regions |
| 27 // and then call 'Measure' to get the estimate. The staging allows multiple |
| 28 // comparisons to be more efficient by precomputing information used in the |
| 29 // comparison. |
| 30 // |
| 31 class DifferenceEstimator { |
| 32 public: |
| 33 DifferenceEstimator(); |
| 34 ~DifferenceEstimator(); |
| 35 |
| 36 class Base; |
| 37 class Subject; |
| 38 |
| 39 // This DifferenceEstimator owns the objects returned by MakeBase and |
| 40 // MakeSubject. Caller continues to own memory at |region| and must not free |
| 41 // it until ~DifferenceEstimator has been called. |
| 42 Base* MakeBase(const Region& region); |
| 43 Subject* MakeSubject(const Region& region); |
| 44 |
| 45 // Returns a value correlated with the size of the bsdiff or xdelta difference |
| 46 // from |base| to |subject|. Returns zero iff the base and subject regions |
| 47 // are bytewise identical. |
| 48 size_t Measure(Base* base, Subject* subject); |
| 49 |
| 50 private: |
| 51 std::vector<Base*> owned_bases_; |
| 52 std::vector<Subject*> owned_subjects_; |
| 53 DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(DifferenceEstimator); |
| 54 }; |
| 55 |
| 56 } // namespace |
| 57 |
| 58 #endif // COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_ |
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