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Remove the slightly fragile exponential growth buffer size.

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It was only speeding up compression a small amount, yet adversely affected compression and would segfault due to the size not being consistent on successive passes.
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ckolivas 2011-02-25 10:10:22 +11:00
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@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ FEBRUARY 2011, version 0.561 Con Kolivas
* Delete temporary files generated when testing from stdin.
* Don't call perror on failures that aren't system related.
* Improve visual output.
* Significant multi-threading speed-ups - Use one more thread than CPUs, and
use a smaller buffer on the first thread and slightly more each next thread
until the next stream. Then repeat the cycle.
* Significant multi-threading speed-ups - as the spawning of threads is
partially serialised, use one more thread than CPUs.
* Don't split up the chunks into multiple threads when no back end
compression is being used.
* Take into account the precise amount of overhead that the memory hungry