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Two coupled pieces of encoder work, built in sequence because the second reuses the first's tables:

Part 1 — dictionary-free entropy coding + RLE (RFC 8878 parity audit finding)

Zstd.compress(data) with no dictionary — the default, most common call — never entropy-coded anything: literals always went out raw, sequences always used the generic predefined FSE distribution, and no RLE form was ever emitted for constant/degenerate runs, even though the decoder has always read all of these from libzstd output.

Now, per block, the encoder picks whichever valid encoding is smallest by exact bit cost (FseEncTable.streamBitCost, not an estimate):

  • Literals: Raw | RLE | Huffman_Compressed from the block's own histogram (new) | Treeless dict-reuse (unchanged)
  • Sequences (LL/OF/ML each): Predefined | RLE | FSE_Compressed from the block's own counts (new) | Repeat dict-reuse (unchanged)

Built by reusing the existing decode-table machinery (histogram/counts → the decoder's own table builder → the existing decode-table→encode-table deriver from last week's parity stack), so encoder and decoder can't hold different tables by construction.

Dictionary paths are unweakened — all six dict-compressed structured samples are byte-identical before/after; SequenceRepeatModeTest/TreelessLiteralsTest pass unmodified.

Measured: -10% to -24% on typical inputs (JSON telemetry, structured records, prose); a 5000-byte constant run drops from 17 bytes to 10.

Deliberately out of scope (documented in README/CHANGELOG): FSE-compressed Huffman weight descriptions (alphabets with a byte ≥128 fall back to Raw literals), 4-stream literals layout (Huffman literals capped at 1023 bytes/block — the largest remaining ratio gap on big blocks), the "-1" FSE low-probability optimization.

Part 2 — multi-block frames

Closes #1. Zstd.compress was capped at 128 KiB (single block per frame). Now it chunks into Block_Maximum_Size blocks with Last_Block set only on the final one, and threads state across the boundary correctly:

  • Repeat offsets are per-frame — the encoder now carries the same three-slot rotation the decoder does across block boundaries, only adopting a block's offsets if the Compressed form actually won (a Raw/RLE block must leave the slots untouched).
  • Entropy tables carry across blocks too — "Repeat"/"Treeless" now mean the previous block's tables (dictionary's only for block 0), mirroring the decoder's own state machine.
  • Dictionary matches from block N>0 now correctly account for the preceding chunk bytes and stop at the dictionary content boundary.

Scope is deliberately the simple form named in #1 — independent per-chunk blocks, no cross-chunk match window. That's the documented next step, not built here.

Measured: 3 MB synthetic JSON telemetry (previously rejected outright) now compresses to 556,657 bytes in 24 blocks (~1.2s) — between libzstd -3 (579,374) and -19 (362,967).

Known follow-up, not fixed here (see PR discussion / commit 2fb9351's notes): the declared window size is sized off the full input even when there's no dictionary and thus no match could actually reach that far back — harmless up to very large inputs, but the correct fix risks changing small dictless frames' byte output, so left alone pending its own pass.

Testing

  • RleEncodingTest, HuffmanConstructionTest/HuffmanLiteralsTest, FseTableDescriptionTest/FreshSequenceTablesTest: unit-level, including a Fibonacci histogram that forces the Huffman length-limiting repair path.
  • EntropyCodingInteropTest, MultiBlockInteropTest (zstd-jni oracle, real libzstd): each asserts the chosen mode before decoding (can't silently degrade to Raw/Predefined and still pass) — RLE block/literals/all-three-streams-RLE, fresh Huffman over 5 alphabet shapes, fresh FSE at the Accuracy_Log ceiling, a 3 MB multi-block telemetry sample, 2 MB incompressible (all-Raw chain), repeat-offsets and dictionary matches across a block boundary.
  • MultiBlockFrameTest: block-count boundaries (128 KiB exactly / +1 byte), Last_Block placement, mixed Compressed/Raw/RLE chains.

No public API change — Zstd.kt's edit is KDoc only; apiCheck/klibApiCheck pass.

./gradlew build passes on every target except native test-binary linking, which hits a pre-existing, unrelated crash on this dev host (reproduced on unmodified main, tracked in #56) — the produced binary runs and passes (68/68) when invoked directly, bypassing the link step.

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  • New Features

    • Compression now supports multi-block frames and inputs up to 128 MiB, including dictionary-backed data.
    • Blocks can use compressed, raw, or RLE formats for improved size efficiency.
    • Enhanced entropy coding selects efficient Huffman and FSE representations.
    • Frames maintain compression state across block boundaries and remain interoperable with standard Zstandard tools.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Oversized histories are rejected with a clear exception.
    • Added validation for dictionary IDs and checksums.
  • Documentation

    • Updated usage guidance, limitations, and interoperability details.

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The encoder now supports multi-block frames up to a 128 MiB history. It adds RLE, fresh FSE, and Huffman representations, preserves frame state across blocks, and validates output with common and libzstd interoperability tests.

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Zstandard encoding and interoperability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Entropy table construction
src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/Fse.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/FseEncoder.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/FseTableWriter.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/HuffmanBuilder.kt, src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FseTableDescriptionTest.kt, src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/HuffmanConstructionTest.kt
Fresh FSE and Huffman tables can be built, serialized, parsed, and used for stream encoding and decoding.
Multi-block encoder state and selection
src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdEncoder.kt, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdDecoder.kt
The encoder emits 128 KiB blocks, enforces the history limit, preserves frame state, and selects compressed, RLE, or raw forms with cost-based entropy modes.
Frame inspection and common validation
src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt, src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/*Test.kt, src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/TestVectors.kt
Tests inspect frame structure and validate multi-block, RLE, Huffman, fresh FSE, dictionary, and round-trip behavior.
JVM interoperability and regression coverage
src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/EntropyCodingInteropTest.kt, src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/MultiBlockInteropTest.kt, src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/ByteIdenticalRegressionTest.kt
JVM tests verify decoding by libzstd and kzstd, cross-block state reuse, dictionary behavior, window rejection, and updated compressed bytes.
Encoding limits and format documentation
AGENTS.md, CHANGELOG.md, README.md, src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt
Documentation describes multi-block compression, entropy modes, RLE forms, state reuse, limits, and interoperability constraints.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2adc6

The encoder now supports much larger multi-block inputs and richer compression modes, but large frames may incur excessive encoding CPU and memory use, including possible out-of-memory failures. These bounded runtime risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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The decoder has always read all three RLE forms — libzstd emits them —
but the encoder never wrote any: a 5000-byte run of one byte still went
out as a Compressed_Block with a full sequence stream, and a stream whose
every sequence shares one code still paid Predefined FSE bits per symbol.

Each RLE form is the degenerate one-symbol case of a block's own entropy
coding, so they land together:

  - RLE_Block (Block_Type 1) when every input byte is identical. All three
    block types share a 3-byte header, so the smallest block is simply the
    one with the smallest payload; ties keep the simpler form.
  - RLE literals (Literals_Block_Type 1) when every literal is the same
    byte. With a dictionary that happens for real inputs whose only
    literals are a repeated separator, everything else having matched into
    the dict content.
  - RLE sequence tables (Symbol_Compression_Mode 1) per LL/OF/ML stream
    when that stream's every code is the same: one description byte and
    not a single bit in the bitstream.

Mode choice is now a cost comparison in BITS across every valid table for
a stream, using FseEncTable.streamBitCost — an exact count that walks the
same path encode() does, not an entropy estimate, so a chosen mode can
never turn out bigger than predicted. Candidates are considered Repeat,
then Predefined, then RLE, and a later one must be strictly cheaper to
win, so the dictionary paths keep every tie.

Table descriptions are written after the mode byte in stream order LL,
OF, ML — the order the decoder resolves them in, which is NOT the LL/ML/OF
order the bitstream's extra bits use.

The all-RLE case can leave the sequences bitstream holding nothing but its
stop bit; EntropyCodingInteropTest confirms real libzstd accepts that, and
the other new tests assert the chosen mode rather than only round-tripping,
so a regression to Raw/Predefined cannot pass silently.

A constant 5000-byte input now compresses to 10 bytes (was 17); the
byte-run sample to 42 bytes (was 208 raw). One pinned frame in
ByteIdenticalRegressionTest moves (same size: the match-length stream now
picks the dictionary's Predefined table over its Repeat table at strictly
lower bit cost, not the offset stream picking RLE) and is refreshed per
that test's documented procedure.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Without a dictionary — the default, most common call — the encoder had no
way to entropy-code literals at all: `Zstd.compress(data)` could only emit
Raw literals, because the one Huffman path it had (Treeless, litType 3)
reuses a dictionary's trained table and there is no such table to reuse.

Build one from the block's own byte histogram instead (litType 2,
Huffman_Compressed), and describe it on the wire so any decoder can rebuild
it. The construction deliberately goes the long way round — histogram →
code lengths → per-symbol weights → HuffmanTable.fromWeights →
HuffmanEncTable.fromDecodeTable — so canonical-code assignment happens once,
in the routine that already agrees with libzstd because it is what reads
libzstd's own descriptions. The encoder therefore cannot drift from the
decoder's idea of which code belongs to which symbol.

Code lengths come from a plain Huffman tree whose depth multiset is then
repaired to respect the format's 11-bit limit while staying a COMPLETE code
(an incomplete one makes the description's implied final weight come out
wrong), after which the shortest codes are handed to the most frequent
symbols. Reassigning at the end is what makes the repair safe: it can
shuffle depths freely without ever pairing a long code with a frequent
symbol.

The literals section is now chosen by building every candidate in full and
taking the smallest — RLE, Treeless, fresh Huffman, Raw — with ties keeping
the earlier, simpler form, so the dictionary's Treeless path is never
displaced by an equally-sized fresh table.

Deliberately not implemented, both falling back to Raw: FSE-compressed
weight descriptions (so a literal byte above 128 cannot be described, since
the direct 4-bit form's header byte is 127 + Number_of_Weights) and the
4-stream literals layout (so this stays single-stream, capped at 1023 bytes
either side — the same cap the Treeless path already had).

Measured, dictionary-free: 887 bytes of concatenated structured records
487 -> 431, and a 208-byte prose sample 213 -> 190. Real libzstd decodes
frames from four shapes of input including a near-uniform 127-symbol
alphabet, which is what proves the tree description conformant rather than
merely self-consistent.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Completes the dictionary-free entropy coding: with no dictionary the three
sequence streams could only use the spec's PREDEFINED distributions, which
are a guess at a typical block and often a poor fit for the block in hand.
Each stream can now carry an FSE_Compressed table (Symbol_Compression_Mode
2) normalized from its own code counts.

The two new pieces are both exact inverses of code the decoder already has,
which is what makes them checkable in isolation:

  - normalizeFseCounts scales the counts to fill the table exactly, keeping
    every code that occurs at a nonzero probability. It deliberately never
    emits the "less than 1" probability (-1) the format allows: giving rare
    codes a full cell costs a little ratio and keeps both the normalizer and
    the description writer free of negative counts, the fiddliest corner of
    the encoding.
  - writeFseTableDescription mirrors parseFseTable field for field — the
    4-bit biased Accuracy_Log, the field width that shrinks as the
    probability budget drains, the extra bit taken only above `max`, and the
    2-bit run-length groups for absent codes.

Accuracy_Log follows zstd's FSE_optimalTableLog, and the normalized counts
are fed through FseTable.build — the decoder's own table build — so the
encoder cannot hold a different table from the one its description will
produce.

FseTableDescriptionTest round-trips writer against the decoder's parser over
distributions covering each branch (adjacent symbols, zero runs of exactly 3
and 4, a run spanning most of the alphabet, flat, and heavily skewed) at
every Accuracy_Log, comparing the rebuilt table cell by cell, and encodes a
whole symbol stream through the result. EntropyCodingInteropTest then hands
real libzstd a frame using fresh tables for all three streams at once.

Measured, dictionary-free: ~7.8 KB of synthetic JSON telemetry records
compresses to 1521 bytes with all three streams on their own tables, and
887 bytes of concatenated structured records 431 -> 425 (the offset stream
alone repays a description at that size). Short blocks keep Predefined, as
they must: a single-sequence block cannot repay a table description.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Describe what a plain Zstd.compress(data) call now does — Huffman literals
and FSE sequence tables built from the block's own data, plus the RLE forms
— with the measured before/after sizes, and state the two encoder-side
limits that remain: single-stream literals (so at most 1023 bytes of
literals per block) and direct 4-bit weight descriptions (so a literal byte
above 128 falls back to Raw). Both are encoder-only; the decoder reads the
4-stream layout and FSE-compressed weights that libzstd emits.

Also pin the new ratio ratchets to the sizes measured on the encoder as it
stood before this work, rather than the round numbers they were drafted
with, and scope the level-mapping note in CHANGELOG to the mapping itself
now that entropy coding legitimately changes level-19 output.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Every cross-oracle case so far sat well inside the encoder's bounds, which
left the widest tables — the ones with the most room for a writer/reader
disagreement — checked only against kzstd's own parser.

Two inputs close that:

  - ~51 KB of synthetic telemetry produces thousands of sequences, which
    pushes the literal-length Accuracy_Log to the format's ceiling of 9 (the
    longest FSE descriptions the encoder can write, and the most field-width
    shrink steps for a reader to follow), spills Number_of_Sequences into its
    2-byte form, and leaves far more than 1023 literals so the literals
    section falls back to Raw while all three sequence streams still carry
    fresh tables — a combination no previous test produced.
  - Literals with Fibonacci counts, the classic worst case for Huffman
    depth: the unconstrained tree is 13 deep against an 11-bit limit, so the
    table libzstd rebuilds is one the length-limiting repair reshaped. The
    unit test for that repair now also asserts the limit actually BINDS, so
    the case cannot quietly stop testing it.

Both also round-trip through kzstd's own decoder on every target.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
A block's regenerated content cannot exceed Block_Maximum_Size (RFC 8878
3.1.1.2) — 128 KiB — and the encoder emitted exactly one block per frame,
so Zstd.compress rejected anything larger outright. It now cuts the input
into 128 KiB chunks, one block each, with Last_Block set on the final
block only. The decoder has always read multi-block frames, so nothing
changes on that side.

Two pieces of per-frame state make this more than a loop:

  - The three repeat offsets belong to the FRAME, not the block: the
    decoder keeps rotating the same slots across a block boundary. They
    are now carried from block to block, and a block is encoded against a
    COPY that is adopted only when the Compressed form actually wins —
    a Raw or RLE block carries no sequences, so it must leave the
    decoder's slots exactly where they were. Restarting them per block
    would make every repeat code after the first block resolve to some
    other distance, which round-tripping against kzstd's own decoder
    (making the same mistake twice) would not reveal.
  - "Repeat" entropy tables (Symbol_Compression_Mode 3) and Treeless
    literals (Literals_Block_Type 3) mean the PREVIOUS block's table, and
    only mean the dictionary's for the frame's first block. Both are
    therefore offered to the first block alone for now; carrying tables
    forward across blocks is a separate change.

Dictionary matching keeps working in every block, which is not automatic:
the dictionary does not move with the chunk, so from the second block on
a dictionary match is `priorBytes` further back and may no longer run
past the end of the dictionary content — what follows there in the real
frame is the frame's first block, not the current chunk. Matches within a
chunk are unaffected; this is deliberately the simple form, where a block
never matches into an earlier block's output. A windowed matcher that
does is a worthwhile follow-up, not this change.

Blocks up to 128 KiB take exactly the path they always did (one chunk,
priorBytes 0, dictionary state seeded as before), so every pinned frame
in ByteIdenticalRegressionTest and every dictionary size is unchanged.

The unreachable "no table could encode this stream" fallback now throws
instead of silently returning the predefined table: multi-block
dictionary matching is what could in principle produce an offset code
above the predefined table's 28 — from a block starting more than 512 MB
into a frame — and emitting a stream a decoder cannot read is worse than
failing.

MultiBlockInteropTest hands the multi-block frames to real libzstd,
including a multi-megabyte input, an all-Raw-block incompressible one,
and a dictionary frame whose second block compresses to a third of its
size only because it still reaches the dictionary. MultiBlockFrameTest
walks the block chain and asserts it ends exactly at the end of the
frame, which is what catches a mis-sized header that still happens to
decode. It replaces EncoderBlockLimitTest, whose subject was the
rejection that no longer happens.

3 MB of synthetic JSON telemetry now compresses at all: 3,145,728 ->
557,565 bytes in 24 blocks (libzstd -3 gives 579,374, libzstd -19
362,967).

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
"Repeat" is per-FRAME, not per-block: Symbol_Compression_Mode 3 names the
FSE table the previous block described, and Treeless literals name the
previous block's Huffman table. Only for a frame's first block do those
mean the dictionary's tables. Multi-block frames therefore had both modes
switched off after the first block — correct, but it left every later
block paying for a table description it could have had for nothing.

The encoder now keeps the same state the decoder does. FrameEntropy
mirrors ZstdDecoder's DecodeState field for field, is seeded from the
dictionary the same way, and is updated by the same rules:

  - a stream's chosen table becomes what Repeat names next, for EVERY
    mode including Predefined and RLE — the decoder stores its resolved
    table the same way however it got it;
  - a block that describes no Huffman tree (Raw or RLE literals) leaves
    the Huffman slot alone, so Treeless keeps naming the older table;
  - a block with no sequences touches nothing, matching the decoder's
    return before the Symbol_Compression_Modes byte such a block does not
    carry;
  - and a Raw or RLE BLOCK moves none of it, which is why the block is
    still encoded against a copy adopted only when the compressed form
    wins.

FreshFseTable and FreshHuffmanTable now carry the decode-side table they
were derived from, so what the encoder records as "current" is by
construction the table the description it just wrote will rebuild — the
same reason those types hand back a decoder-built encode table in the
first place. The predefined tables gain their decode-side halves for the
same reason.

Choosing Repeat stays safe by construction: FseEncTable.streamBitCost
returns null for a code the table cannot represent, so a carried-forward
table that no longer fits the block — an RLE table from a constant stream
being the sharp case — is simply not a candidate.

Measured. 3 MB of synthetic JSON telemetry: 557,565 -> 556,657 bytes, as
the offset and match-length streams settle onto one table for the whole
frame. A 128 KiB noise block followed by a dictionary-trained sample: the
tail block 54 -> 46, 49 -> 41, 51 -> 44, 56 -> 48, 59 -> 56, 58 -> 51
bytes, because the noise block describes nothing and so leaves the
dictionary's own tables live for the block after it. Single-block frames
see the seeded state and nothing else, so they are byte-identical.

The tests assert the mode rather than the round-trip: a dictionary-less
frame's first block cannot repeat anything (0, 0, 0) while its successors
do (3, 3, 3), the multi-megabyte oracle case requires some later block to
repeat before handing the frame to libzstd, and the dictionary case
requires the block after the noise to still be Treeless.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
State what Zstd.compress now does with an input of any size, and — more
usefully for whoever reads this next — what it still does NOT do: blocks
are compressed independently, so a match never reaches back into an
earlier block's output. That, together with the 1023-byte single-stream
literals cap already documented, is why a full 128 KiB block keeps raw
literals and takes its ratio from the sequence tables alone, and why 3 MB
of telemetry lands between libzstd's levels 3 and 19 rather than near 19.
A windowed matcher is named as the follow-up.

AGENTS.md's "one block per frame" invariant is replaced rather than
deleted: what now needs protecting is that PureZstdEncoder's FrameEntropy
mirrors PureZstdDecoder's DecodeState exactly, since a divergence makes a
Repeat mode name a different table on each side and produces a frame that
still round-trips through kzstd while libzstd reads garbage.

The 0.1.0 release notes keep their original wording — they described that
release accurately.

Documentation only; no public symbol changes, so the API baseline is
unchanged.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
The dictionary case already covers a RAW block in the middle of a frame
leaving the tables live for the block after it. The RLE block type takes
the same path in the encoder but had no oracle coverage, so a mistake
that reset the state only for RLE blocks would have passed everything.

A frame of telemetry, a 128 KiB constant run and more telemetry produces
exactly that shape: the middle block is an RLE_Block, and the third block
still repeats a table the FIRST block described. libzstd has to resolve
that repeat the same way for the frame to come back intact.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
Lifting the single-block 128 KiB guard removed the encoder's only ceiling
on total frame history. Without a replacement, a large enough input made
the declared windowLog exceed libzstd's default decompression limit
(ZSTD_WINDOWLOG_LIMIT_DEFAULT = 27, 128 MiB) -- a frame kzstd's own
decoder reads fine but real-world libzstd consumers reject by default,
breaking this codec's own "frames stay libzstd-interoperable in both
directions" invariant. AGENTS.md's removed "one block per frame" note
already framed the old guard as something to hold "until multi-block
encoding lands" -- this is the replacement that should have landed with
it.

encode() now rejects (dict content + input) beyond 128 MiB up front,
before any block work, mirroring the old guard's fail-fast shape. A
jvmTest confirms the boundary (commonTest would multiply a 128 MiB
allocation across all thirteen targets, same reasoning as the rest of
MultiBlockInteropTest.kt).

The offset-code integer-overflow path this also would have made reachable
(distance approaching Int.MAX_VALUE) is closed by the same fix: 128 MiB is
nowhere near where `distance + 3` could overflow a signed Int.

Also, in the same file since it's the same per-block hot path:

- perf: buildSequences allocated and zero-initialized a fresh 131,072-entry
  (512 KB) hash-chain head table on every call. Before multi-block encoding
  this ran once per encode(); now it runs once per 128 KiB block, so a
  multi-MB input pays that allocation dozens of times over (measured: a
  3 MB/24-block input did ~3.1M wasted writes purely re-establishing a
  table encode() could hand down once). Matching is still reset per block
  by design (no cross-block matching), so the O(n) clear itself is
  unavoidable -- this just moves the allocation out of the loop, into
  encode(), reusing one instance across every block via head.fill(-1)
  instead of a fresh array literal each time.

- docs: encodeBlock's doc comment claimed "ties go to the simpler form"
  (RLE), but the actual selection only picks RLE when strictly smaller
  than a Compressed candidate -- an equal-size Compressed block wins the
  tie. Corrected to describe what the code does.

- docs: TestVectors.largeLogRecords' doc comment still referenced the
  "128 KiB single-block limit" language removed elsewhere in this PR now
  that a block is a chunk within a multi-block frame, not an encoder-wide
  cap.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
README, CHANGELOG and AGENTS.md still described compress() as accepting
input of any size once the single-block cap lifted -- update all three
for the 128 MiB replacement ceiling from the previous commit.

Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
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src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/HuffmanLiteralsTest.kt (1)

57-65: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Bind the incompressible sample by name, not by corpus position.

TestVectors.corpus.last() happens to be the pseudo-random entry today. If a later change appends to corpus, this test silently starts asserting on a different sample and stops covering the raw-literals fallback. Expose the near-random vector as its own TestVectors property and use it here.

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In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/HuffmanLiteralsTest.kt` around
lines 57 - 65, Expose the near-random test vector as a named property on
TestVectors instead of selecting it with corpus.last(). Update
incompressibleLiteralsStayRaw to use that property while preserving the existing
raw-literals assertion and decompression check.
src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt (1)

62-107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider delegating the first-block accessors to the block-aware ones.

literalsType duplicates literalsTypeOf, and sequenceModes duplicates sequenceModesOf. Both pairs re-derive the same header offsets, so a later parsing fix must be applied twice. You can express the first-block variants through blocks(frame).first().

♻️ Proposed refactor
     fun literalsType(frame: ByteArray): Int {
-        val p = frameHeaderEnd(frame)
-        if ((blockHeader(frame, p) ushr 1) and 0x3 != 2) return -1
-        return frame[p + 3].toInt() and 0x3
+        return literalsTypeOf(frame, blocks(frame).first())
     }
 
     fun sequenceModes(frame: ByteArray): Triple<Int, Int, Int>? {
-        var p = frameHeaderEnd(frame)
-        check((blockHeader(frame, p) ushr 1) and 0x3 == 2) { "not a Compressed_Block" }
-        p += 3
-        p = skipLiteralsSection(frame, p)
-
-        if (sequenceCountAt(frame, p) == 0) return null
-        p += sequenceCountFieldLen(frame, p)
-        val modes = frame[p].toInt() and 0xFF
-        return Triple((modes ushr 6) and 0x3, (modes ushr 4) and 0x3, (modes ushr 2) and 0x3)
+        return sequenceModesOf(frame, blocks(frame).first())
     }
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In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt` around lines 62
- 107, Refactor the first-block accessors literalsType and sequenceModes to
delegate to literalsTypeOf and sequenceModesOf using blocks(frame).first(),
preserving their existing return values and validation behavior while removing
duplicated offset parsing.
src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/MultiBlockFrameTest.kt (1)

76-90: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Assert the absence of Repeat mode instead of the exact Predefined triple.

The intent stated in the doc comment is that the first block cannot use Repeat mode. Line 82 pins Triple(0, 0, 0), so any later cost-model change that legitimately picks RLE or fresh FSE tables for the first block fails this test for the wrong reason. Assert that no stream uses mode 3.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-        val first = FrameInspector.sequenceModesOf(frame, blocks[0])
-        assertEquals(Triple(0, 0, 0), first, "no dictionary, so the first block has nothing to repeat")
+        val first = FrameInspector.sequenceModesOf(frame, blocks[0])!!
+        assertTrue(
+            first.toList().none { it == 3 },
+            "no dictionary, so the first block has nothing to repeat, got $first",
+        )
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In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/MultiBlockFrameTest.kt` around
lines 76 - 90, Update laterBlocksRepeatTheEarlierBlocksSequenceTables in the
first-block assertion to verify that none of its sequence modes is Repeat mode
(3), rather than requiring the exact Triple(0, 0, 0); keep the existing
assertions that subsequent blocks use Triple(3, 3, 3).
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185-189: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Set an explicit heap size for the JVM test task. org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M configures Gradle, not the forked test worker. This test allocates 134,217,729 bytes, and the test worker has no maxHeapSize setting. Configure sufficient heap for the allocation and codec overhead.

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lines 185 - 189, Configure the JVM test task running MultiBlockInteropTest with
an explicit maxHeapSize of at least 2048m so the forked worker can accommodate
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src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdEncoder.kt (1)

187-200: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Short-circuit constant chunks before running the matcher.

A Compressed_Block body always holds at least the literals header and the Number_of_Sequences byte, so it is never 1 byte. For any constant chunk larger than 1 byte the RLE branch therefore always wins, and both buildSequences and encodeCompressedBlock are discarded work.

Test the chunk for a constant byte first. A constant 128 MiB input currently runs the full lazy match search, plus a 128 K-entry head.fill(-1), once per block for nothing.

♻️ Proposed short-circuit
         val chunk = data.copyOfRange(start, end)
+        val constantByte = constantByteOrNull(chunk)
+        if (constantByte != null && chunk.size > 1) {
+            // A Compressed_Block body is at least 2 bytes (literals header +
+            // Number_of_Sequences), so RLE is always strictly smaller here.
+            // RLE describes nothing, so the frame state stays put.
+            writeBlockHeader(out, lastBlock, blockType = 1, blockSize = chunk.size)
+            out.add(constantByte)
+            return
+        }
         val program = buildSequences(chunk, dict, index, depth, priorBytes = start, head = matchHead)
         val blockState = state.copy()
         val compressedBlock = encodeCompressedBlock(program, chunk, blockState)
-
-        val constantByte = constantByteOrNull(chunk)
         when {
-            constantByte != null &&
-                chunk.size > 1 &&
-                (compressedBlock == null || compressedBlock.size > 1) -> {
-                // RLE_Block: the single repeated byte IS the block body.
-                writeBlockHeader(out, lastBlock, blockType = 1, blockSize = chunk.size)
-                out.add(constantByte)
-            }
-
             compressedBlock != null && compressedBlock.size < chunk.size -> {
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In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdEncoder.kt` around
lines 187 - 200, Move the constant-byte check ahead of buildSequences and
encodeCompressedBlock in the block-encoding flow, using constantByteOrNull on
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Inline comments:
In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 39-54: Add the SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later header
before the document title in AGENTS.md lines 39-54 and README.md lines 68-89;
apply the same header-only change at both sites without altering surrounding
content.

In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 70-74: Update the changelog entry to remove the claim that
dictionary-compressed frames retain the previous size; state instead that ties
preserve the previous choice while winning dictionary table reuse can produce
smaller frames.
- Around line 29-32: Update the Zstd.compress changelog entry to state that
checksums remain disabled by default, without claiming existing frame bytes are
unchanged; note that encoder improvements, including dictionary-free entropy
coding and multi-block encoding, may change frame bytes.

In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/FseEncoder.kt`:
- Around line 67-101: Replace the linear scan in transition with O(1) FSE state
derivation using per-symbol deltaNbBits and deltaFindState values initialized by
fromDecodeTable, matching the reference encoder while preserving the existing
transition result and validation behavior. Ensure streamBitCost and encode both
use this constant-time path for every symbol.

In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt`:
- Around line 16-21: Update the public KDoc for compress to state that the
combined dictionary content and input are limited to 128 MiB, and that larger
inputs are rejected with ZstdException before encoding; replace the inaccurate
“input of any size” wording while preserving the existing multi-block behavior
description.

In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt`:
- Around line 119-126: Update literalLengthAccuracyLog to read the sequence
count before accessing the modes byte, and return null when Number_of_Sequences
is zero, matching sequenceModes behavior. Preserve the existing modes validation
and accuracy-log calculation for blocks with sequences.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/ZstdEncoder.kt`:
- Around line 187-200: Move the constant-byte check ahead of buildSequences and
encodeCompressedBlock in the block-encoding flow, using constantByteOrNull on
the chunk and preserving the existing RLE behavior for repeated chunks larger
than one byte. Skip matcher and compressed-block work, including match-head
initialization where applicable, for constant chunks; retain normal compression
processing for non-constant or single-byte chunks.

In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt`:
- Around line 62-107: Refactor the first-block accessors literalsType and
sequenceModes to delegate to literalsTypeOf and sequenceModesOf using
blocks(frame).first(), preserving their existing return values and validation
behavior while removing duplicated offset parsing.

In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/HuffmanLiteralsTest.kt`:
- Around line 57-65: Expose the near-random test vector as a named property on
TestVectors instead of selecting it with corpus.last(). Update
incompressibleLiteralsStayRaw to use that property while preserving the existing
raw-literals assertion and decompression check.

In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/MultiBlockFrameTest.kt`:
- Around line 76-90: Update laterBlocksRepeatTheEarlierBlocksSequenceTables in
the first-block assertion to verify that none of its sequence modes is Repeat
mode (3), rather than requiring the exact Triple(0, 0, 0); keep the existing
assertions that subsequent blocks use Triple(3, 3, 3).

In `@src/jvmTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/MultiBlockInteropTest.kt`:
- Around line 185-189: Configure the JVM test task running MultiBlockInteropTest
with an explicit maxHeapSize of at least 2048m so the forked worker can
accommodate the overLimit allocation and codec overhead; do not rely on
org.gradle.jvmargs alone.
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Comment thread AGENTS.md
Comment on lines +39 to +54
- **Blocks are independent, and per-frame state is threaded through them.** The
encoder cuts input into 128 KiB (`Block_Maximum_Size`) chunks and emits a
multi-block frame; a chunk is matched only against itself and the dictionary,
never against an earlier block's output. The three repeat offsets and the tables
the "Repeat" / "Treeless" modes name are FRAME state — `PureZstdEncoder`'s
`FrameEntropy` must keep mirroring `PureZstdDecoder`'s `DecodeState` exactly, or
a mode names one table on each side and the frame decodes to garbage that only
a real-libzstd oracle catches.
- **Total history (dictionary content + input) is capped at 128 MiB.** The
frame header always declares a window covering the full history; beyond
128 MiB that window exceeds libzstd's default decompression limit
(`ZSTD_WINDOWLOG_LIMIT_DEFAULT` = windowLog 27), so `encode()` rejects it
with a `ZstdException` up front rather than emit a frame most real-world
libzstd consumers refuse. Keep this guard — it's what "frames stay
libzstd-interoperable in both directions" actually requires now that
multi-block encoding has no other size limit.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the required SPDX header to both Markdown files.

Both files start with document titles and omit the required SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later header.

  • AGENTS.md#L39-L54: Add the header before # AGENTS.md.
  • README.md#L68-L89: Add the header before # kzstd.

As per coding guidelines, files matching **/*.{kt,kts,py,md,yml,yaml,gradle} must carry an SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later header.

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Comment thread CHANGELOG.md
Comment on lines 29 to 32
- `Zstd.compress` takes an opt-in `checksum: Boolean = false` parameter; when
true, the encoder sets `Content_Checksum_Flag` and appends the XXH64
checksum of the input. Defaults to false, so every existing call site's
frame bytes are unchanged.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not claim byte identity when only the checksum default is unchanged.

checksum = false prevents checksum bytes by default, but it does not preserve every existing frame byte. This PR changes dictionary-free entropy coding and multi-block encoding.

Replace the claim with wording that says checksums remain disabled by default, while frame bytes may change because of encoder improvements.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 29 - 32, Update the Zstd.compress changelog entry
to state that checksums remain disabled by default, without claiming existing
frame bytes are unchanged; note that encoder improvements, including
dictionary-free entropy coding and multi-block encoding, may change frame bytes.

Comment thread CHANGELOG.md
Comment on lines +70 to +74
- Every per-block encoding choice — the literals section and each of the three
sequence streams independently — is now made by measuring every valid
alternative and taking the smallest, so a form is used only when it actually
wins. Ties keep the previous behaviour, and dictionary-compressed frames come
out the same size as before.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the contradictory dictionary-size statement.

The changelog states that dictionary table reuse can reduce output size, but Line 74 says dictionary-compressed frames keep the previous size. State that ties preserve the previous choice and that winning table reuse can produce smaller frames.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 70 - 74, Update the changelog entry to remove the
claim that dictionary-compressed frames retain the previous size; state instead
that ties preserve the previous choice while winning dictionary table reuse can
produce smaller frames.

Comment on lines +67 to +101
private fun transition(state: Int, symbol: Int): Int {
for (ds in symbolStates[symbol]) {
val base = newStateBase[ds]
val hi = base + (1 shl nb)
if (state in base until hi) {
bw.writeBits(state - base, nb)
return ds
}
if (state >= base && state < base + (1 shl nbBits[ds])) return ds
}
// The FSE invariant guarantees a match; reaching here means a corrupt
// table or an out-of-range symbol the caller failed to bound.
throw ZstdException("FSE encode: no transition for symbol $symbol from state $state")
}

/**
* Exactly how many bits encoding [codes] (chronological order) with this
* table would cost — every transition plus the flushed initial state — or
* null when some code has no code point here ([isCovered]).
*
* This walks the SAME path [encode] does (backwards from the last code,
* starting at [initialState]), so it is an exact count and not an entropy
* estimate: the cost model that chooses between Predefined / RLE /
* FSE_Compressed / Repeat can therefore never pick a mode that turns out
* bigger than it predicted. Bits from the three sequence streams simply
* add, so streams can be costed independently even though they interleave
* in the final bitstream.
*/
fun streamBitCost(codes: IntArray): Long? {
if (codes.isEmpty()) return null
for (c in codes) if (!isCovered(c)) return null
var state = initialState(codes[codes.size - 1])
var bits = 0L
for (i in codes.size - 2 downTo 0) {
val ds = transition(state, codes[i])
bits += nbBits[ds]
state = ds
}
return bits + tableLog
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Replace the linear state scan before large inputs use this path.

transition scans symbolStates[symbol] for every encoded code. The scanned list holds one entry per table cell that emits the symbol, so the hottest code in a skewed table (tableLog up to 9) walks hundreds of entries.

streamBitCost now runs this scan over the whole code stream for every candidate table. chooseSequenceTable costs up to four candidates per stream and three streams per block, and blocks are now up to 128 KiB with up to ~1000 blocks per frame at the 128 MiB history cap. The per-block cost therefore multiplies by roughly an order of magnitude compared with the previous single-block encoder, and encode pays the same scan again.

Derive the target state in O(1) from per-symbol deltaNbBits/deltaFindState values built in fromDecodeTable, as the reference FSE encoder does. A binary search over the sorted state list is a smaller change with the same effect.

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In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/internal/FseEncoder.kt` around
lines 67 - 101, Replace the linear scan in transition with O(1) FSE state
derivation using per-symbol deltaNbBits and deltaFindState values initialized by
fromDecodeTable, matching the reference encoder while preserving the existing
transition result and validation behavior. Ensure streamBitCost and encode both
use this constant-time path for every symbol.

Comment on lines +16 to +21
* [compress] takes an input of any size: it cuts the input into zstd's 128 KiB
* `Block_Maximum_Size` chunks and emits them as one multi-block frame. The chunks
* are compressed independently — a match never reaches back into an earlier
* block — so a large input compresses somewhat less well than a windowed encoder
* would manage. [decompress] reads any conformant frame, including multi-block
* frames produced by other encoders.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Document the 128 MiB input limit in the public KDoc.

compress does not accept input of any size. The documented contract limits the combined dictionary content and input to 128 MiB. Larger inputs are rejected with ZstdException before encoding.

Proposed fix
- * [compress] takes an input of any size: it cuts the input into zstd's 128 KiB
+ * [compress] accepts up to 128 MiB of combined dictionary content and input. It
+ * cuts the input into zstd's 128 KiB
  * `Block_Maximum_Size` chunks and emits them as one multi-block frame. The chunks
  * are compressed independently — a match never reaches back into an earlier
  * block — so a large input compresses somewhat less well than a windowed encoder
  * would manage. [decompress] reads any conformant frame, including multi-block
  * frames produced by other encoders.
+ * Inputs above this limit throw [ZstdException] before encoding.
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* [compress] takes an input of any size: it cuts the input into zstd's 128 KiB
* `Block_Maximum_Size` chunks and emits them as one multi-block frame. The chunks
* are compressed independently — a match never reaches back into an earlier
* block — so a large input compresses somewhat less well than a windowed encoder
* would manage. [decompress] reads any conformant frame, including multi-block
* frames produced by other encoders.
* [compress] accepts up to 128 MiB of combined dictionary content and input. It
* cuts the input into zstd's 128 KiB
* `Block_Maximum_Size` chunks and emits them as one multi-block frame. The chunks
* are compressed independently — a match never reaches back into an earlier
* block — so a large input compresses somewhat less well than a windowed encoder
* would manage. [decompress] reads any conformant frame, including multi-block
* frames produced by other encoders.
* Inputs above this limit throw [ZstdException] before encoding.
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In `@src/commonMain/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/Zstd.kt` around lines 16 - 21,
Update the public KDoc for compress to state that the combined dictionary
content and input are limited to 128 MiB, and that larger inputs are rejected
with ZstdException before encoding; replace the inaccurate “input of any size”
wording while preserving the existing multi-block behavior description.

Comment on lines +119 to +126
fun literalLengthAccuracyLog(frame: ByteArray): Int? {
var p = frameHeaderEnd(frame) + 3
p = skipLiteralsSection(frame, p)
p += sequenceCountFieldLen(frame, p)
val modes = frame[p].toInt() and 0xFF
if ((modes ushr 6) and 0x3 != 2) return null
return (frame[p + 1].toInt() and 0xF) + 5
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

literalLengthAccuracyLog reads the modes byte without checking Number_of_Sequences.

sequenceModes returns null when the count is 0, but this function skips that guard. For a block with no sequences it reads whatever byte follows the count field and can return a bogus log. Add the same zero-count guard.

🛠️ Proposed fix
     fun literalLengthAccuracyLog(frame: ByteArray): Int? {
         var p = frameHeaderEnd(frame) + 3
         p = skipLiteralsSection(frame, p)
+        if (sequenceCountAt(frame, p) == 0) return null
         p += sequenceCountFieldLen(frame, p)
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fun literalLengthAccuracyLog(frame: ByteArray): Int? {
var p = frameHeaderEnd(frame) + 3
p = skipLiteralsSection(frame, p)
p += sequenceCountFieldLen(frame, p)
val modes = frame[p].toInt() and 0xFF
if ((modes ushr 6) and 0x3 != 2) return null
return (frame[p + 1].toInt() and 0xF) + 5
}
fun literalLengthAccuracyLog(frame: ByteArray): Int? {
var p = frameHeaderEnd(frame) + 3
p = skipLiteralsSection(frame, p)
if (sequenceCountAt(frame, p) == 0) return null
p += sequenceCountFieldLen(frame, p)
val modes = frame[p].toInt() and 0xFF
if ((modes ushr 6) and 0x3 != 2) return null
return (frame[p + 1].toInt() and 0xF) + 5
}
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In `@src/commonTest/kotlin/org/meshtastic/kzstd/FrameInspector.kt` around lines
119 - 126, Update literalLengthAccuracyLog to read the sequence count before
accessing the modes byte, and return null when Number_of_Sequences is zero,
matching sequenceModes behavior. Preserve the existing modes validation and
accuracy-log calculation for blocks with sequences.

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Multi-block encoding: lift the 128 KiB single-block input limit

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