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Issue 7109015: Update XZ Utils to 5.0.3 (in deps) (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/xz/
Patch Set: Created 9 years, 6 months ago
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2 XZ Utils To-Do List 2 XZ Utils To-Do List
3 =================== 3 ===================
4 4
5 Known bugs 5 Known bugs
6 ---------- 6 ----------
7 7
8 The test suite is too incomplete. 8 The test suite is too incomplete.
9 9
10 If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to 10 If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to
11 automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though 11 automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though
12 it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to 12 it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to
13 HC3/HC4. 13 HC3/HC4.
14 14
15 The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading 15 The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading
16 as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should. 16 as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should.
17 Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip. 17 Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip.
18 18
19 XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils. 19 XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils.
20 This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and 20 This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and
21 can be worked around by using "xz --extreme". However, the presets 21 can often be worked around by using "xz --extreme". With some files
22 need some tweaking and maybe this issue can be minimized without 22 --extreme isn't enough though: it's most likely with files that
23 making the typical case too much slower. 23 compress extremely well, so going from compression ratio of 0.003
24 to 0.004 means big relative increase in the compressed file size.
24 25
25 xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names 26 xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names
26 given on the command line. 27 given on the command line.
27 28
28 tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible. 29 tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible.
29 30
31 SIGTSTP is not handled. If xz is stopped, the estimated remaining
32 time and calculated (de)compression speed won't make sense in the
33 progress indicator (xz --verbose).
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30 35
31 Missing features 36 Missing features
32 ---------------- 37 ----------------
33 38
34 xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control 39 xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control
35 lists etc. from source to target file. 40 lists etc. from source to target file.
36 41
37 Multithreaded compression 42 Multithreaded compression
38 43
39 Multithreaded decompression 44 Multithreaded decompression
40 45
41 Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when 46 Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when
42 decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2). 47 decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2).
43 48
44 I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf. 49 I/O library is not implemented (similar to gzopen() in zlib).
50 It will be a separate library that supports uncompressed, .gz,
51 .bz2, .lzma, and .xz files.
45 52
46 lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form? 53 lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form?
47 This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with 54 This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with
48 slightly different meanings. 55 slightly different meanings, and this cannot be fixed anymore.
49 56
50 57
51 Documentation 58 Documentation
52 ------------- 59 -------------
53 60
54 Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some 61 Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some
55 extremely well commented example programs, which would work as 62 extremely well commented example programs, which would work as
56 a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick 63 a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick
57 reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API. 64 reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API.
58 65
59 Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms. 66 Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms.
60 67
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