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  • Compressing with a dictionary could write a frame that decodes to other data: the encoder primes the dictionary in window-sized pieces and dropped a last piece shorter than its hash read, so every offset into the dictionary landed one to four bytes off. Every frame path and every level was affected whenever the dictionary length left such a piece (16, 64 or 128 KiB plus 1-4 bytes, and many more lengths once a pledged small source shrinks the pieces, which is how zstd -D dict file compresses). The dictionary is now committed whole.
  • A dictionary interop matrix against libzstd covers the frame paths the existing tests did not.
  • Per-frame entropy-stage work is cut on small frames: no table copy per block, smaller histograms, no zeroed candidate buffer.
  • The lazy search is monomorphised on the hash key width, so its per-position hash carries no runtime branch on it.

Changes

  • prime_with_dictionary_impl: the piece before a short last one ends early enough that the last keeps a full hash read, or runs to the end when that would leave it short; a dictionary too short to hash stays out whole.
  • ffi-bench/tests/dictionary_interop.rs: one-shot, streamed, pledged, hinted and reused-context frames; raw dictionaries at 4, 16, 64, 110 and 128 KiB plus 0-4 bytes and a trained one; inputs reaching the dictionary's start, its end and a multi-block mix; a level of every strategy; decoded by libzstd and both of our decoders, and libzstd's frames decoded by ours.
  • A compressed block returns its table decisions (FSE and Huffman) for the caller to commit once the block is kept or discard when it is written raw, as upstream confirms nextCBlock; the per-block Huffman copy, the rollback slots and the FSE rollback are gone.
  • Sequence-code histograms are sized to their alphabet (64 slots) instead of 256, with the counts unchecked under a debug-asserted bound.
  • The row search's candidate buffer is left uninitialised instead of zeroed per search.
  • The lazy monolith takes the key width (4, 5 or 6) as a const parameter, chosen once per block beside the finder and row log, as upstream instantiates its searches per (rowLog, mls); the row, chain and tree hashes and the dictionary probes read it from the scan context.

Testing

  • Tests (aarch64 and x86), doc tests, clippy (library CI feature sets and ffi-bench), formatting and the no-std build pass; frames are byte-identical to main across levels on corpus, random and dictionary inputs.
  • Wall time on the x86 bench host (E5-1650 v4), bench profile, main, this branch and libzstd interleaved in one run, three rounds of perf stat -r 3 -e task-clock, median ms. Compressed sizes of main and this PR are equal on every row.
fixture level main this PR Δ libzstd PR / libzstd
1 KiB frames, 110 KiB dictionary, ×100k 5 674.8 588.5 -12.8% 424.3 1.39× (was 1.59×)
1 KiB frames, 110 KiB dictionary, ×100k 8 1125.7 1143.7 +1.6% 857.6 1.33× (was 1.31×)
4 KiB corpus head, ×50k 3 2503 2542.5 not established 1576.9 1.61×
1 MiB corpus, ×40 3 483.3 481.5 flat 290.0 1.66×
1 MiB corpus, ×40 5 662.2 661.5 flat 471.7 1.40×
1 MiB corpus, ×40 6 798.6 741.7 -7.1% 552.9 1.34×
1 MiB corpus, ×40 8 995.8 959.3 -3.7% 687.9 1.39×
1 MiB corpus, ×40 10 1094.3 1028.6 -6.0% 1094.0 0.94×
1 MiB corpus, ×6 19 1096.8 1123.0 not established 1088.7 1.03×
  • Level 3 never runs the key-width change, and each commit of this branch built separately times that 4 KiB row within about 3% of main in both directions, so its delta is code layout, not cost. Level 19 overlaps between rounds.
  • The dictionary level 8 row compresses the same 1 KiB frame every time, so the predictor learns the frame's Huffman build branches outright. The new code layout breaks that: misses grow from 3.6 M to 16 M, almost all of them in the untouched entropy stage. On the varied 1 MiB corpus, misses are equal and level 8 is 3.7% faster.

Closes #585

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved compression with raw-content dictionaries near the 64 KiB boundary, including dictionaries with short trailing sections.
    • Added coverage for pledged-size dictionary compression across compression levels and verified that generated frames decode correctly.
    • Improved dictionary handling so short trailing sections are included when priming dictionaries.
  • Tests

    • Added dictionary interoperability checks across compression methods, dictionary types, and decoder implementations.

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Dictionary priming now includes short final chunks. The change also adds dictionary interoperability coverage, defers block entropy-table updates until block selection, narrows sequence-code histograms, and specializes row-scan hash widths. The CI test-job timeout increases from 15 to 25 minutes.

Changes: Dictionary priming and interoperability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prime complete dictionary tails
zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/dict_prime.rs, zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/tests.rs, zstd/tests/cross_validation.rs
Dictionary priming adjusts chunk boundaries to include short final tails. Tests update retained-window expectations and check raw dictionaries from 65,536 through 65,539 bytes across compression levels 1–22.
Exercise dictionary interoperability
ffi-bench/Cargo.toml, ffi-bench/tests/dictionary_interop.rs
The integration test checks raw and trained dictionaries across one-shot, streaming, pledged, hinted, and reused-context compression paths. It checks generated frames with libzstd and both crate decoders, and checks libzstd-generated frames with the crate decoders.

Entropy-table state and histograms

Layer / File(s) Summary
Commit or discard block tables
zstd/src/encoding/blocks/compressed.rs, zstd/src/encoding/frame_compressor.rs, zstd/src/encoding/levels/fastest.rs, zstd/src/encoding/blocks/compressed/tests.rs, zstd/src/encoding/levels/fastest/tests.rs, zstd/src/encoding/streaming_encoder.rs, zstd/src/encoding/streaming_encoder/tests.rs
Block compression returns deferred FSE and Huffman table decisions. Callers commit them for compressed blocks and discard them for raw fallbacks. Huffman rollback storage and related heap accounting are removed.
Narrow sequence-code histograms
zstd/src/encoding/blocks/compressed.rs, zstd/src/encoding/blocks/compressed/tests.rs
Sequence-code histograms and estimator workspace use 64 slots instead of 256. Counting paths check code bounds before unchecked indexing.

Row scan hashing and candidate storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Specialize row hash-key width
zstd/src/encoding/row/mod.rs, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Lazy parsing and attached-dictionary lookups pass the selected hash-key width through the scan context. The CI test-job timeout increases to 25 minutes.
Use an uninitialized candidate buffer
zstd/src/encoding/row/mod.rs
The row match probe writes candidates to a MaybeUninit<u32> array and reads only its initialized prefix.

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Out of Scope Changes check Warning Issue [#585] does not require the entropy-table commit redesign, 64-slot sequence histograms, or lazy-search hash-width monomorphisation. These changes affect compressed.rs, fastest.rs, and `row/m… Remove these independent optimizations from this pull request, or move them to a separate pull request with a directly linked coding requirement.
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Issue [#585] requires complete dictionary priming and interoperability coverage. prime_with_dictionary_impl now includes every hashable dictionary byte and leaves dictionaries shorter than the backend hash read out. The new matrix covers the five frame paths, the required raw and trained dictionaries, 0–4 byte tails, boundary and mixed inputs, one level per strategy, both project decoders, and libzstd. The unchanged chunk path preserves output when no short final piece exists.

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Issue [#585] does not require the entropy-table commit redesign, 64-slot sequence histograms, or lazy-search hash-width monomorphisation. These changes affect compressed.rs, fastest.rs, and row/mod.rs and are independent of dictionary priming and interoperability coverage.

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polaz added 9 commits October 16, 2026 10:05
Priming fed the dictionary into the matcher history in slice-sized
chunks and dropped a last chunk shorter than the hash read. Those bytes
were missing from the history while the decoder places the whole
dictionary before the frame, so every offset into the dictionary landed
one to three bytes off and the frame decoded to wrong data (the content
checksum caught it). A pledged small source shrinks the slice to the
window, which is how `zstd -D dict file` hit it; every level was
affected.

The piece before a short last one now ends early enough that the last
keeps a full hash read, or runs to the end when that would leave it
short; a dictionary too short to hash at all stays out whole, as no
match can reach it. Output is unchanged for dictionaries that leave no
short last piece.

Regression test: cross_dictionary_with_a_short_last_piece_roundtrips_at_every_level
(through the C decoder, tails 0-3, levels 1-22). The two driver tests
that pinned the dropped tail now pin the whole dictionary committed.

Closes #585
The dictionary interop tests compressed through the one-shot
FrameCompressor alone, with dictionaries of round lengths, so the
streamed path with a pledged size and a dictionary one to three bytes
past a whole number of priming pieces was never decoded by libzstd.

The matrix crosses five ways a frame is made (one-shot, streamed,
pledged, hinted, a context reused for three frames) with raw
dictionaries at 4, 16, 64, 110 and 128 KiB plus 0-4 bytes and a
dictionary libzstd trained, inputs reaching the dictionary's start, its
end and a multi-block mix, and a level of every strategy. Each frame is
decoded by libzstd, FrameDecoder and StreamingDecoder; libzstd's own
frames for the same dictionaries go through both of ours. One test per
dictionary length so the matrix runs in parallel.

Part of #585
Experiment: the buffer change alone, to isolate its instruction count.
The three sequence-code histograms were byte-wide arrays, zeroed on
every block (and on every split probe) though the alphabets hold 36,
53 and 32 codes. They are now 64 slots, as upstream's HIST_countFast_wksp
counts only up to the last code: 1.5 KiB cleared a block instead of
6 KiB. Output is unchanged.
Every compressed block copied the Huffman table it started from into a
rollback slot, and cloned the three FSE handles, in case the block lost
to a raw one; it then applied its decisions and, on fallback, put the
copies back. Upstream builds into nextCBlock and confirms it only when
the block is kept.

encode_block_parts now returns the block's table decisions, Huffman
included, and the caller commits them once the size test keeps the
block or discards them when it writes the block raw. Nothing the block
started from is copied, the rollback slots and the FSE rollback go, and
a Huffman table built by a discarded block is kept as a buffer. Output
is unchanged.
A byte index into a 256-slot histogram needed no bounds check; into the
64-slot one it got three a sequence. The code functions keep every code
inside its alphabet (at most 35, 52 and 31), so the increments are
unchecked under a debug_assert of that bound.
- The lazy monolith takes the hash key width (4, 5 or 6) as a const
  parameter, chosen once per block next to the finder and row log, as
  upstream instantiates its searches per (rowLog, mls).
- The row, chain and tree hashes and the dictionary probes read the width
  from the scan context, so the per-position key hash carries no runtime
  branch on it. Other callers keep the runtime width.
- Frames are byte-identical across levels on corpus, random and
  dictionary inputs.
The release-mode bound on the literal- and match-length codes comes from
the bounds-checked extra-bits lookups in the code functions; the safety
comment now says so, so those lookups are not made unchecked unnoticed.
- A block written raw keeps the tables it started from and parks the
  Huffman table it built as a buffer instead of carrying it.
- The splitter's retained workspace is counted in the context size.
- The row hash salt only spreads bucket indices; its doc says it guards
  no secret, so a constant salt is not a cryptographic value.
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The discarded-block test started from empty previous slots, so a discard
that replaced an existing FSE table went unnoticed. Each slot now holds a
custom table, and the test checks the same handle is still there.
Monomorphising the lazy search on the key width triples its instances
per SIMD tier. The crate's test build is serial-bound and Windows builds
it three times, so the job ran past the 15-minute limit while every test
that had run passed.
The codec's hash salts are fixed mixing constants for the match finder,
not keys, and the crate has no cryptographic code, so every report of
this query is a false positive.
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## 🤖 New release

* `structured-zstd`: 0.2.0 -> 0.2.1

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- 2026-10-16

### Added

- *(decoding)* add caller-owned streaming workspace decoder
([#583](#583))

### Fixed

- *(encoding)* commit a dictionary's short last chunk into the history
([#586](#586))
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