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Okoba

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What are the most impressive Pascal codes you've ever seen?
« on: January 22, 2025, 09:32:23 am »
To be clear, I am not asking about projects, they are welcome too, but mostly I like to see a block of code that impressed you.
Preferably show the code with a link to the original for future reference and licensing.

I go first:
SynLZ from mORMot project. It has ASM equivalent too, but looking at such arguably short code that compresses 500MB to 1GB per second and decompresses near 2GB per second is impressive.
You can find more about decompression in the same unit.
https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/43715abaf47c7c15c76fb554fe7893af7e23931a/src/core/mormot.core.base.pas#L10652-L10784
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  1. function SynLZcompress1pas(src: PAnsiChar; size: integer; dst: PAnsiChar): integer;
  2. var
  3.   dstbeg,          // initial dst value
  4.   srcend,          // real last byte available in src
  5.   srcendmatch,     // last byte to try for hashing
  6.   o: PAnsiChar;
  7.   cwbit: byte;
  8.   cwpoint: PCardinal;
  9.   v, h, cached, t, tmax: PtrUInt;
  10.   offset: TOffsets;
  11.   cache: array[0..4095] of cardinal; // 16KB+16KB=32KB on stack (48KB for cpu64)
  12. begin
  13.   dstbeg := dst;
  14.   // 1. store in_len
  15.   if size >= $8000 then
  16.   begin
  17.     // size in 32KB..2GB -> stored as integer
  18.     PWord(dst)^ := $8000 or (size and $7fff);
  19.     PWord(dst + 2)^ := size shr 15;
  20.     inc(dst, 4);
  21.   end
  22.   else
  23.   begin
  24.     PWord(dst)^ := size; // size<32768 -> stored as word
  25.     if size = 0 then
  26.     begin
  27.       result := 2;
  28.       exit;
  29.     end;
  30.     inc(dst, 2);
  31.   end;
  32.   // 2. compress
  33.   srcend := src + size;
  34.   srcendmatch := srcend - (6 + 5);
  35.   cwbit := 0;
  36.   cwpoint := pointer(dst);
  37.   PCardinal(dst)^ := 0;
  38.   inc(dst, SizeOf(cwpoint^));
  39.   FillCharFast(offset, SizeOf(offset), 0); // fast 16KB reset to 0
  40.   // 1. main loop to search using hash[]
  41.   if src <= srcendmatch then
  42.     repeat
  43.       v := PCardinal(src)^;
  44.       h := ((v shr 12) xor v) and 4095;
  45.       o := offset[h];
  46.       offset[h] := src;
  47.       cached := v xor {%H-}cache[h]; // o=nil if cache[h] is uninitialized
  48.       cache[h] := v;
  49.       if (cached and $00ffffff = 0) and
  50.          (o <> nil) and
  51.          (src - o > 2) then
  52.       begin
  53.         cwpoint^ := cwpoint^ or (cardinal(1) shl cwbit);
  54.         inc(src, 2);
  55.         inc(o, 2);
  56.         t := 1;
  57.         tmax := srcend - src - 1;
  58.         if tmax >= (255 + 16) then
  59.           tmax := (255 + 16);
  60.         while (o[t] = src[t]) and
  61.               (t < tmax) do
  62.           inc(t);
  63.         inc(src, t);
  64.         h := h shl 4;
  65.         // here we have always t>0
  66.         if t <= 15 then
  67.         begin
  68.           // mark 2 to 17 bytes -> size=1..15
  69.           PWord(dst)^ := integer(t or h);
  70.           inc(dst, 2);
  71.         end
  72.         else
  73.         begin
  74.           // mark 18 to (255+16) bytes -> size=0, next byte=t
  75.           dec(t, 16);
  76.           PWord(dst)^ := h; // size=0
  77.           dst[2] := ansichar(t);
  78.           inc(dst, 3);
  79.         end;
  80.       end
  81.       else
  82.       begin
  83.         dst^ := src^;
  84.         inc(src);
  85.         inc(dst);
  86.       end;
  87.       if cwbit < 31 then
  88.       begin
  89.         inc(cwbit);
  90.         if src <= srcendmatch then
  91.           continue
  92.         else
  93.           break;
  94.       end
  95.       else
  96.       begin
  97.         cwpoint := pointer(dst);
  98.         PCardinal(dst)^ := 0;
  99.         inc(dst, SizeOf(cwpoint^));
  100.         cwbit := 0;
  101.         if src <= srcendmatch then
  102.           continue
  103.         else
  104.           break;
  105.       end;
  106.     until false;
  107.   // 2. store remaining bytes
  108.   if src < srcend then
  109.     repeat
  110.       dst^ := src^;
  111.       inc(src);
  112.       inc(dst);
  113.       if cwbit < 31 then
  114.       begin
  115.         inc(cwbit);
  116.         if src < srcend then
  117.           continue
  118.         else
  119.           break;
  120.       end
  121.       else
  122.       begin
  123.         PCardinal(dst)^ := 0;
  124.         inc(dst, 4);
  125.         cwbit := 0;
  126.         if src < srcend then
  127.           continue
  128.         else
  129.           break;
  130.       end;
  131.     until false;
  132.   result := dst - dstbeg;
  133. end;            

Example code:
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  1. program project1;
  2.  
  3. uses
  4.   mormot.core.base,
  5.   mormot.core.os;
  6.  
  7. var
  8.   Decompressed, Compressed: RawByteString;
  9.   DecompressedSize, CompressedSize: Integer;
  10.   T: QWord;
  11. begin
  12.   Decompressed := StringFromFile('test.txt');
  13.   WriteLn('Source Size: ', Length(Decompressed));
  14.  
  15.   WriteLn('Compress');
  16.   SetLength(Compressed, SynLZcompressdestlen(Length(Decompressed)));
  17.   T := GetTickCount64();
  18.   CompressedSize := SynLZcompress1pas(PChar(Decompressed), Length(Decompressed), PChar(Compressed)); //~500MB/S
  19.   //CompressedSize := SynLZcompress1(PChar(Decompressed), Length(Decompressed),PChar(Compressed)); //ASM Version, ~1GB/S
  20.   WriteLn('Time: ', GetTickCount64() - T);
  21.   WriteLn('Size: ', CompressedSize);
  22.  
  23.   WriteLn('Decompress');
  24.   SetLength(Decompressed, SynLZdecompressdestlen(PChar(Compressed)));
  25.   T := GetTickCount64();
  26.   DecompressedSize := SynLZdecompress1pas(PChar(Compressed), CompressedSize, PChar(Decompressed)); //~2GB/S
  27.   //DecompressedSize := SynLZdecompress1(PChar(Compressed), CompressedSize, PChar(Decompressed)); //ASM Version, ~2GB/S
  28.   WriteLn('Time: ', GetTickCount64() - T);
  29.   WriteLn('Size: ', DecompressedSize);
  30. end.

abouchez

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Re: What are the most impressive Pascal codes you've ever seen?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2025, 05:47:50 pm »
Since I actually wrote the previous code, I can think of several projects not written by me.

Bero's code for instance is actually impressive.
https://github.com/BeRo1985/

AlexTP

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Re: What are the most impressive Pascal codes you've ever seen?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2025, 05:51:58 pm »
Patch: heap.inc with incremental formatting and instant recycling of fixed chunks.
!694 · created 7 months ago by Rika
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/694

 

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