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authorsra@chromium.org <sra@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2009-05-08 23:00:29 +0000
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+// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// A DifferenceEstimator class provides a means for quickly estimating the
+// difference between two regions of memory.
+
+#ifndef COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_
+#define COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "courgette/region.h"
+
+namespace courgette {
+
+// A DifferenceEstimator simplifies the task of determining which 'Subject' byte
+// strings (stored in regions of memory) are good matches to existing 'Base'
+// regions. The ultimate measure would be to try full differential compression
+// and measure the output size, but an estimate that correlates well with the
+// full compression is more efficient.
+//
+// The measure is asymmetric, if the Subject is a small substring of the Base
+// then it should match very well.
+//
+// The comparison is staged: first make Base and Subject objects for the regions
+// and then call 'Measure' to get the estimate. The staging allows multiple
+// comparisons to be more efficient by precomputing information used in the
+// comparison.
+//
+class DifferenceEstimator {
+ public:
+ DifferenceEstimator();
+ ~DifferenceEstimator();
+
+ class Base;
+ class Subject;
+
+ // This DifferenceEstimator owns the objects returned by MakeBase and
+ // MakeSubject. Caller continues to own memory at |region| and must not free
+ // it until ~DifferenceEstimator has been called.
+ Base* MakeBase(const Region& region);
+ Subject* MakeSubject(const Region& region);
+
+ // Returns a value correlated with the size of the bsdiff or xdelta difference
+ // from |base| to |subject|. Returns zero iff the base and subject regions
+ // are bytewise identical.
+ size_t Measure(Base* base, Subject* subject);
+
+ private:
+ std::vector<Base*> owned_bases_;
+ std::vector<Subject*> owned_subjects_;
+ DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(DifferenceEstimator);
+};
+
+} // namespace
+
+#endif // COURGETTE_DIFFERENCE_ESTIMATOR_H_