Bit7z v4.0.8

[rikyoz]

Changes from v4.0.7:

• Fixed missing header (gcc14) (by @SGSSGene in fix: add missing <algorithm> header (gcc14) #218).
• Fixed build failing when cross-compiling using MinGW on Linux (closed issue [Bug]: Mingw cross compile fails #222).
• Fixed conversion from FILETIME to file_time_type when using libstdc++.
• Rewrote directory indexing algorithm to not use recursion (closed issue [Feature Request]: Compressing large folders,For example, compressing the entire D: drive #223).
  • This fixes possible stack overflow errors that could happen while indexing deeply nested directory structures.
• Optimized BitArchiveReader::items().
• Optimized indexing of directories.
• Disabled buffering of file streams to improve performance (issue [Feature Request]: When using the same compression parameters as 7-zip, the compression process can be 10% - 20% slower. #224).
  • Now bit7z is considerably faster while reading and writing files during extraction and compression operations.
  • For example, this graph shows the improvement in the runtime of a test program between v4.0.7 and v4.0.8:
    
  • There is still some overhead compared to 7-zip which will require some more work. I plan to remove it for the next version v4.1.
• Fixed support for BSD operating systems (closed issue Failed to compile on FreeBSD #230).
• Added BitOutputArchive::addDirectoryContents and BitFileCompressor::compressDirectoryContents methods (closed issue [Feature Request]: BitOutputArchive::addFiles( const tstring& in_dir... should take options.only_files from an argument instead of 'false' #226).

Full Changelog: v4.0.7...v4.0.8

This is a maintenance release. For a full changelog of the other changes introduced by bit7z v4, please check https://github.com/rikyoz/bit7z/releases/tag/v4.0.0.

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