xxHash Changelog
What's new in xxHash 0.8.2
Jul 21, 2023- Fix an assert comparison the same values (flagged by PVS Studio in 0.8.1) by @kcgen in #628
- Add GitHub Actions badge for release branch by @t-mat in #633
- Add windows-2022 to ci.yml by @t-mat in #634
- Add macOS matrix to ci.yml by @t-mat in #635
- Fix compilation on RHEL 7 ppc64le (gcc 4.8) by @ellert in #631
- Add clang-cl for MSVC 2019 to ci.yml by @t-mat in #637
- [NEON] Split XXH3 into 6 NEON lanes and 2 scalar lanes on aarch64 by @easyaspi314 in #632
- Fix some ARM/clang-cl feature detection issues by @easyaspi314 in #623
- Add QEMU/gcc matrix to ci.yml by @t-mat in #640
- fix #625 by @Cyan4973 in #638
- fix #627 by @Cyan4973 in #639
- added m68k emulation tests to GA by @Cyan4973 in #643
- Document some nerdy ARM stuff, move scalarRound down. by @easyaspi314 in #642
- fix minor static analyzer warning by @Cyan4973 in #644
- fix man page installation by @Cyan4973 in #648
- fix cmake --install by @Cyan4973 in #649
- Use attribute((aligned)) instead of packed by @Hello71 in #650
- [ARM/AArch64] Fix multiple GCC codegen problems by @easyaspi314 in #651
- removed XXH3 declarations when XXH_NO_XXH3 is defined by @Cyan4973 in #653
- new build macro XXH_NO_STDLIB by @Cyan4973 in #654
- improved nostdlib test by @Cyan4973 in #656
- added attribute((const)) by @Cyan4973 in #657
- added attribute((malloc)) by @Cyan4973 in #658
- added attribute((pure)) by @Cyan4973 in #659
- Documentation update by @easyaspi314 in #661
- Makefile: add dedicated install targets by @ffontaine in #665
- XXH_HAS_C_ATTRIBUTE(x)?! by @easyaspi314 in #662
- do no longer depend on <assert.h> for XXH_STATIC_ASSERT by @Cyan4973 in #670
- Properly fix altivec namespace collisions by @easyaspi314 in #672
- Introduce XXH_SIZE_OPT and XXH_NO_STREAM by @easyaspi314 in #667
- Remove duplicated definition of XXH3_128bits by @mterron in #676
- Removed windows-2016 from ci.yml by @t-mat in #690
- tipi.build instructions by @pysco68 in #688
- Fix issue #695 by @t-mat in #698
- Build fix for Haiku by @Begasus in #696
- Use inline assembler for Power/IBM XL Compiler by @MaxiBoether in #708
- test filename-escape by @Cyan4973 in #710
- avoid add_compile_definitions for cmake < v3.12 by @Cyan4973 in #711
- just more cmake v2.8.12 tests by @Cyan4973 in #721
- CPack Added in #719
- Remove stream loads and slightly improve avx512 seed generation by @goldsteinn in #726
- Fix: brace expansion by @t-mat in #729
- Fix issue #724 by @t-mat in #730
- Remove macOS-10.15 from ci.yml by @t-mat in #736
- blind fix for fallthrough on icc by @Cyan4973 in #718
- Optimize XXH3_accumulate_512_neon by @dougallj in #734
- Fix typos found by codespell by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #739
- ci: fix tipi build error on github CI workflow by @hzhuang1 in #749
- Update GitHub Actions by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #742
- xxhash: support SVE by intrinsic code by @hzhuang1 in #752
- fix issues reported by cppcheck by @hzhuang1 in #746
- CI: fix missing space by @hzhuang1 in #758
- Fixing tipi-build / Build as dependency CI step by @pysco68 in #760
- Customize full accumulating loop for SVE by @hzhuang1 in #756
- added macos-12 test to GH CI by @Cyan4973 in #765
- Small improvement to x86 vectorized hashes and medium-sizes hash. by @goldsteinn in #754
- dispatch: Use attribute((constructor)) on XXH_setDispatch by @goldsteinn in #773
- Fix typo found by codespell by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #777
- http:// → https:// by @DimitriPapadopoulos in #778
- Add attribute((noescape)) on pointers in public API by @goldsteinn in #782
- Annotate xxh_x86dispatch with XXH_NOESCAPE by @goldsteinn in #786
- [NEON] Refactor NEON code by @easyaspi314 in #787
- Makefile: add install_libxxhash.includes target by @ffontaine in #776
- s390x: add memory barrier to avoid fault issue by @hzhuang1 in #785
- Define XXH_RESTRICT for some C++ compilers (gcc/clang/msvc/icc) by @goldsteinn in #788
- Fix spelling. by @dwsteele in #797
- cmake: support dispatch mode by @hzhuang1 in #790
- Fix XXH_UNREACHABLE feature test for C++23 and remove for C23 #791 by @goldsteinn in #792
- Rewrite XXH3_update by @easyaspi314 in #805
- fix: GH-Actions - remove ubuntu-18.04 by @t-mat in #817
- Fix: add gcc -Og check and fix its false positive warnings by @t-mat in #814
- Fix off-by-one in XXH3_consumeStripes() (Fixes #816) by @easyaspi314 in #818
- added read-all permission status to Github Actions Workflow by @Cyan4973 in #807
- XXH_ASSUME macro using __builtin_assume if supported (clang only fo… by @devnexen in #803
- Fix GCC 12 -Og by @easyaspi314 in #804
- Add gcc-12 to ci.yml
New in xxHash 0.8.1 (Mar 16, 2023)
- perf : much improved performance for XXH3 streaming variants, notably on gcc and msvc
- perf : improved XXH64 speed and latency on small inputs
- perf : small XXH32 speed and latency improvement on small inputs of random size
- perf : minor stack usage improvement for XXH32 and XXH64
- api : new experimental variants XXH3_*_withSecretandSeed()
- api : updated XXH3_generateSecret(), can now generate secret of any size (>= XXH3_SECRET_SIZE_MIN)
- cli : xxhsum can now generate and check XXH3 checksums, using command -H3
- build: can build xxhash without XXH3, with new build macro XXH_NO_XXH3
- build: fix xxh_x86dispatch build with MSVC, by @apankrat
- build: XXH_INLINE_ALL can always be used safely, even after XXH_NAMESPACE or a previous XXH_INLINE_ALL
- build: improved PPC64LE vector support, by @mpe
- install: fix pkgconfig, by @ellert
- install: compatibility with Haiku, by @Begasus
- doc : code comments made compatible with doxygen, by @easyaspi314
- misc : XXH_ACCEPT_NULL_INPUT_POINTER is no longer necessary, all functions can accept NULL input pointers, as long as size == 0
- misc : complete refactor of CI tests on Github Actions, offering much larger coverage, by @t-mat
- misc : xxhsum code base split into multiple specialized units, within directory cli/, by @easyaspi314