Tornado 0.5 (Jan 15, 2014)

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Tornado 0.5 is finally released. It was developed back in 2008, with a last bug fixed almost 5 years ago. These are the list of changes compared to version 0.4:

• Removed modes -6 -8 -10 -12, renumerated -7/9/11 to -6/7/8
• -7/-8: 1% better compression and 5-20% better speed due to use of ht5
• New -9..-11 modes: 2gb hash and ht5..ht7 match finders
• In small tornado.exe -c1..-c3 available for -7..-11 modes
• Support for -l not power of 2 in cchash matchfinders
• Options -ah, -al, -t#, -cpu, -q, -delete, stats->stderr
• Checks at decoding in order to prevent segfaults
• MSVC/ICL compatibility, use of wall-clock times
• Linux: 64-bit file offsets!
• PowerPC (big-endian cpus) compatibility, thanks to Joachim Henke
• 64-bit compilers support!
• -3 mode compression improved by 2-3%
• 2mb hash in -4/-5 modes improved speed by 20-30%
• Fixed long-standing decompression bug (table split across 2 write chunks)
• Removed CHECK_FOR_DATA_TABLE(2) in -3/-4 modes