When using clang++ with std c++14 or c++17 you would get the error "an attribute list cannot appear here" when including "lz4.h" as the visibility attribute is before the c++ attribute.
This ensures that the [[deprecated]] c++ attribute is before everything
else in the function declarations.
In some contexts, *cough*like at facebook*cough*, dynamic linking is used in
contexts which aren't truly dynamic. That is, the guarantee is maintained that
a program will only ever execute against the library version it was compiled
to interact with.
For those situations, introduce a compile-time flag that overrides hiding
these unstable APIs in shared objects.
object files created from /tests are compiled with specific flags (`-g -DLZ4_DEBUG=1`)
which are not welcomed in release binary.
`lib/*.o` files created from /tests are now stored in /tests, to avoid unintentional mix.
Pattern analysis (currently limited to long ranges of identical bytes)
is actually detrimental to performance
when `nbSearches` is low.
Reason is : `nbSearches` provides a built-in protection for these cases.
The problem with patterns is that they dramatically increase the number of candidates to visit.
But with a low nbSearches, the match finder just aborts early.
In such cases, pattern analysis adds some complexity without reducing total nb of candidates.
It actually increases compression ratio a little bit, by filtering only "good" candidates,
but at a measurable speed cost, so it's not a good trade-off.
This patch makes pattern analysis optional.
It's enabled for levels 8+ only.
lz4opt is only competitive vs lz4hc level 10.
Below that level, it doesn't match the speed / compression effectiveness of regular hc parser.
This patch propose to extend lz4opt to levels 10-12.
The new level 10 tend to compress a bit better and a bit faster than previous one (mileage vary depending on file)
The only downside is that `limitedDestSize` mode is now limited to max level 9 (vs 10),
since it's only compatible with regular HC parser.
(Note : I suspect it's possible to convert lz4opt to support it too, but haven't spent time into it).
