Multithreading Library for Brotli, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard

Description

• works with skippables frame id 0x184D2A50 (12 bytes per compressed frame)
• brotli is supported the same way, it will encapsulate the real brotli stream within an 16 byte frame header

Generic skippable frame definition

• the frame header for Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard is like this:

size	value	description
4 bytes	0x184D2A50U	magic for skippable frame
4 bytes	4	size of skippable frame
4 bytes	compressed size	size of the following frame (compressed data)

Brotli frame definition

• the frame header for brotli is defined a bit different:

size	value	description
4 bytes	0x184D2A50U	magic for skippable frame (like zstd)
4 bytes	8	size of skippable frame
4 bytes	compressed size	size of the following frame (compressed data)
2 bytes	0x5242U	magic for brotli "BR"
2 bytes	uncompressed size	allocation hint for decompressor (64KB * this size)

Usage of the Testutils

• see programs

Usage of the Library

• see lib

/TR 2017-05-24