Modern compression algorithms are better than zlib both in terms of
space and time. The jar format, used for e.g. omni.ja, addons, etc.
could benefit from using such modern algorithms, but the format only
allows a limited set of compression algorithms.
However, the format in itself is flexible, in that it can be extended
with arbitrary compression algorithms. This breaks compatibility with
programs like unzip, obviously, but we've never promised the files
shipped with Firefox will always remain "valid" zips (which they already
aren't, but they currently work with most zip readers).
With this change, we allow those archives to contain brotli streams,
using an arbitrary large value for the compression type in the Zip local
file header. This only allows to read such archives, but not to produce
them, and, for now, support for brotli streams is kept Nightly-only,
until everything is pieced together and we're happy to ship it.
The bulk of this commit was generated with a script, executed at the top
level of a typical source code checkout. The only non-machine-generated
part was modifying MFBT's moz.build to reflect the new naming.
CLOSED TREE makes big refactorings like this a piece of cake.
# The main substitution.
find . -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.mm' -o -name '*.idl'| \
xargs perl -p -i -e '
s/nsRefPtr\.h/RefPtr\.h/g; # handle includes
s/nsRefPtr ?</RefPtr</g; # handle declarations and variables
'
# Handle a special friend declaration in gfx/layers/AtomicRefCountedWithFinalize.h.
perl -p -i -e 's/::nsRefPtr;/::RefPtr;/' gfx/layers/AtomicRefCountedWithFinalize.h
# Handle nsRefPtr.h itself, a couple places that define constructors
# from nsRefPtr, and code generators specially. We do this here, rather
# than indiscriminantly s/nsRefPtr/RefPtr/, because that would rename
# things like nsRefPtrHashtable.
perl -p -i -e 's/nsRefPtr/RefPtr/g' \
mfbt/nsRefPtr.h \
xpcom/glue/nsCOMPtr.h \
xpcom/base/OwningNonNull.h \
ipc/ipdl/ipdl/lower.py \
ipc/ipdl/ipdl/builtin.py \
dom/bindings/Codegen.py \
python/lldbutils/lldbutils/utils.py
# In our indiscriminate substitution above, we renamed
# nsRefPtrGetterAddRefs, the class behind getter_AddRefs. Fix that up.
find . -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.idl' | \
xargs perl -p -i -e 's/nsRefPtrGetterAddRefs/RefPtrGetterAddRefs/g'
if [ -d .git ]; then
git mv mfbt/nsRefPtr.h mfbt/RefPtr.h
else
hg mv mfbt/nsRefPtr.h mfbt/RefPtr.h
fi
instead of allocating all the data into one big buffer, keep a small input buffer around and decompress directly into a client's read buffer..
r=dougt, sr=darin
