This change simplifies further modification of the code.
Explanation:
Considering that chunks are no longer used in the output format, it makes sense to also remove chunk related code from the intermediate processing. This modification also allows to use endpoint references from the leftmost block to the rightmost block in the previous scanline (wrapped reference to the left).
Testing:
The modified algorithm has been tested on the Kodak test set using 64-bit build with default settings (running on Windows 10, i7-4790, 3.6GHz). All the decompressed test images are identical to the images being compressed and decompressed using original version of Crunch.
[Compressing Kodak set without mipmaps]
Original: 1582222 bytes / 28.846 sec
Modified: 1494501 bytes / 25.628 sec
Improvement: 5.54% (compression ratio) / 11.16% (compression time)
[Compressing Kodak set with mipmaps]
Original: 2065243 bytes / 36.869 sec
Modified: 1945365 bytes / 33.497 sec
Improvement: 5.80% (compression ratio) / 9.15% (compression time)
Alexander Suvorov
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