// Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All rights reserved. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. package s2 // nthDerivativeCoder provides Nth Derivative Coding. // (In signal processing disciplines, this is known as N-th Delta Coding.) // // Good for varint coding integer sequences with polynomial trends. // // Instead of coding a sequence of values directly, code its nth-order discrete // derivative. Overflow in integer addition and subtraction makes this a // lossless transform. // // constant linear quadratic // trend trend trend // / \ / \ / \_ // input |0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 9 16 25 36 // 0th derivative(identity) |0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 9 16 25 36 // 1st derivative(delta coding) | 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 7 9 11 // 2nd derivative(linear prediction) | 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 // ------------------------------------- // 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 // n in sequence // // Higher-order codings can break even or be detrimental on other sequences. // // random oscillating // / \ / \_ // input |5 9 6 1 8 8 2 -2 4 -4 6 -6 // 0th derivative(identity) |5 9 6 1 8 8 2 -2 4 -4 6 -6 // 1st derivative(delta coding) | 4 -3 -5 7 0 -6 -4 6 -8 10 -12 // 2nd derivative(linear prediction) | -7 -2 12 -7 -6 2 10 -14 18 -22 // --------------------------------------- // 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 // n in sequence // // Note that the nth derivative isn't available until sequence item n. Earlier // values are coded at lower order. For the above table, read 5 4 -7 -2 12 ... type nthDerivativeCoder struct { n, m int memory [10]int32 } // newNthDerivativeCoder returns a new coder, where n is the derivative order of the encoder (the N in NthDerivative). // n must be within [0,10]. func newNthDerivativeCoder(n int) *nthDerivativeCoder { c := &nthDerivativeCoder{n: n} if n < 0 || n > len(c.memory) { panic("unsupported n. Must be within [0,10].") } return c } func (c *nthDerivativeCoder) encode(k int32) int32 { for i := 0; i < c.m; i++ { delta := k - c.memory[i] c.memory[i] = k k = delta } if c.m < c.n { c.memory[c.m] = k c.m++ } return k } func (c *nthDerivativeCoder) decode(k int32) int32 { if c.m < c.n { c.m++ } for i := c.m - 1; i >= 0; i-- { c.memory[i] += k k = c.memory[i] } return k }