Mr.Losinger, have you seen the Wikipedia's article on LZSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZSS[^] Now check my amateurish attempt to shed light on LZSS: http://www.sanmayce.com/Nakamichi/[^] LZSS is simple enough yet writing an article is not easy, my wish is to contribute to the decompression part with one of the fastest (in top 3) etudes, benchmarks, C/Assembly snippets, not to define/explain the algorithm. For a start, I need modern machine to test on, sadly I own only Core2, that's a nasty break for me since I use DWORD fetching (sucks on Core2), XMM and even ZMM which is so interesting to be seen what can bring to the table. My naive expectations were that some fellow coders will help me at least with its benchmarking, sadly I see no interested coders on this topic. One of my wishes is to show an etude, Nakamichi 'Sanagi' to be exact, 512bit targeted, luckily Intel C optimizer v14 (which I used) supports them but still no computer in my reach can run the executable. "Tianhe-2 the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 list for June and November 2013 utilizes Xeon Phi accelerators based on Knights Corner." /Wikipedia/ In my view such an benchmark is both important and interesting, thus the incoming Knights Corner/Landing processors will show the power of ZMMWORD moves. "... Far more interesting is that Intel's Knights Landing not only will be an expansion card but also will serve as a standalone platform or processor ..." /http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Exploring-the-Xeon-Phi/ Simply, the near future will bring monstrous bandwidths, not utilizing them is just ... lame. I see how some 30 years old algorithms are/have to be 'pimped' and pumped. >it's unlikely that many people are going to be familiar with the LZSS algorithm. Agreed, but it is with everything like that, isn't it! >i'd suggest including a simpler compressor with a description of the algorithm. Sure. >you have to at least get the readers up to the point where they can follow your discussion of the decompressor. otherwise, you're starting the story in the middle. Of course, I am not some villain wanting to obscure information, but as I said my focus is entirely on textual decompression speed boosts, they alone took a lot of my tim
