Improving LZXpress decompression/compression algorithms

[Matt Suiche]

No worries at all, if there are more samples we could add for testing I'd
recommend we do so too.
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:11 AM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 12:13 +0400, Matt Suiche via samba-technical
> wrote:
> > First of all, thanks a lot to Douglas Bagnall for the assistance.
> >
> > While I was revisiting the LZXpress implementation, I discovered that
> > the 2
> > official documented cases from MS-XCA were not supported:
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> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-xca/72da4f8d-2ba3-437d-b772-2e4173713a0b?redirectedfrom=MSDN
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> > The attached implementation includes bug fixes in the decompression
> > algorithm, a rewrite of the compression function and additional tests
> > as it
> > only had a single test.
>
> Thanks Matt for taking care of this, it is really appriciated having
> someone look back over this code, and adding tests in particular.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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