Adjust xz compression settings

This adjusts our compression settings for xz compressed files, which
should reduce download sizes by around 5-15%, at the cost of ~44% longer
compression times. Given that compression happens almost universally in
CI, rather than something humans are directly waiting for, this tradeoff
feels worth it.

If we end up seeing this be too significant an increase in CI times,
moving the more aggressive compression solely to promote-release should
be relatively straightforward and give most of the benefits.

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/src/compression.rs b/src/compression.rs
index 7e20a94..9b17698 100644
--- a/src/compression.rs
+++ b/src/compression.rs
@@ -39,14 +39,37 @@ impl CompressionFormat {
         Ok(match self {
             CompressionFormat::Gz => Box::new(GzEncoder::new(file, flate2::Compression::best())),
             CompressionFormat::Xz => {
-                // Note that preset 6 takes about 173MB of memory per thread, so we limit the number of
-                // threads to not blow out 32-bit hosts.  (We could be more precise with
-                // `MtStreamBuilder::memusage()` if desired.)
-                let stream = xz2::stream::MtStreamBuilder::new()
-                    .threads(Ord::min(num_cpus::get(), 8) as u32)
-                    .preset(6)
-                    .encoder()?;
-                Box::new(XzEncoder::new_stream(file, stream))
+                let mut filters = xz2::stream::Filters::new();
+                // the preset is overridden by the other options so it doesn't matter
+                let mut lzma_ops = xz2::stream::LzmaOptions::new_preset(9).unwrap();
+                // This sets the overall dictionary size, which is also how much memory (baseline)
+                // is needed for decompression.
+                lzma_ops.dict_size(64 * 1024 * 1024);
+                // Use the best match finder for compression ratio.
+                lzma_ops.match_finder(xz2::stream::MatchFinder::BinaryTree4);
+                lzma_ops.mode(xz2::stream::Mode::Normal);
+                // Set nice len to the maximum for best compression ratio
+                lzma_ops.nice_len(273);
+                // Set depth to a reasonable value, 0 means auto, 1000 is somwhat high but gives
+                // good results.
+                lzma_ops.depth(1000);
+                // 2 is the default and does well for most files
+                lzma_ops.position_bits(2);
+                // 0 is the default and does well for most files
+                lzma_ops.literal_position_bits(0);
+                // 3 is the default and does well for most files
+                lzma_ops.literal_context_bits(3);
+
+                filters.lzma2(&lzma_ops);
+                let compressor = XzEncoder::new_stream(
+                    std::io::BufWriter::new(file),
+                    xz2::stream::MtStreamBuilder::new()
+                        .threads(1)
+                        .filters(filters)
+                        .encoder()
+                        .unwrap(),
+                );
+                Box::new(compressor)
             }
         })
     }
@@ -94,10 +117,13 @@ impl fmt::Display for CompressionFormats {
             if i != 0 {
                 write!(f, ",")?;
             }
-            fmt::Display::fmt(match format {
-                CompressionFormat::Xz => "xz",
-                CompressionFormat::Gz => "gz",
-            }, f)?;
+            fmt::Display::fmt(
+                match format {
+                    CompressionFormat::Xz => "xz",
+                    CompressionFormat::Gz => "gz",
+                },
+                f,
+            )?;
         }
         Ok(())
     }