|master | [](https://travis-ci.org/Cyan4973/zstd) |
|dev | [](https://travis-ci.org/Cyan4973/zstd) |
-As a reference, several fast compression algorithms were tested and compared on a Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.5GHz, using [lzbench], an open-source in-memory benchmark by @inikep compiled with gcc 5.2.1, with the [Silesia compression corpus].
+As a reference, several fast compression algorithms were tested and compared on a Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.5GHz, using [lzbench], an open-source in-memory benchmark by @inikep compiled with gcc 5.4.0, with the [Silesia compression corpus].
[lzbench]: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
[Silesia compression corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
|Name | Ratio | C.speed | D.speed |
|-----------------|-------|--------:|--------:|
| | | MB/s | MB/s |
-|**zstd 0.7.0 -1**|**2.877**|**325**| **930** |
+|**zstd 0.8.0 -1**|**2.877**|**330**| **930** |
| [zlib] 1.2.8 -1 | 2.730 | 95 | 360 |
-| brotli -0 | 2.708 | 220 | 430 |
+| brotli 0.4 -0 | 2.708 | 320 | 375 |
| QuickLZ 1.5 | 2.237 | 510 | 605 |
| LZO 2.09 | 2.106 | 610 | 870 |
| [LZ4] r131 | 2.101 | 620 | 3100 |
### Status
-Zstd compression format has reached "Final status". It means it is planned to become the official stable zstd format and be tagged `v1.0`. The reason it's not yet tagged `v1.0` is that it currently performs its "validation period", making sure the format holds all its promises and nothing was missed.
-Zstd library also offers legacy decoder support. Any data compressed by any version >= `v0.1` (hence including current one) remains decodable now and in the future.
+Zstd compression format has reached "Final status". It means it is planned to become the official stable zstd format tagged `v1.0`. The reason it's not yet tagged `v1.0` is that it currently performs its "validation period", making sure the format holds all its promises and nothing was missed.
+Zstd library also offers legacy decoder support. Any data compressed by any version >= `v0.1` is decodable now and in the future.
The library has been validated using strong [fuzzer tests](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing), including both [internal tools](programs/fuzzer.c) and [external ones](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl). It's able to withstand hazard situations, including invalid inputs.
As a consequence, Zstandard is considered safe for, and is currently used in, production environments.