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maxSyncLen bounds how much of the frame the synchronous decoder (DecodeAll, or a Reader with concurrency 1) may still produce. decodeSyncSimple compares it with the output buffer's slack to decide whether the extended 16-byte copies are safe; otherwise every block runs the bounds-exact "safe" decodeSync variant.

decodeCompressed subtracts each compressed block's output from it, but decodeBuf's raw and RLE cases never did. A frame that opens with incompressible data (stored as raw blocks) therefore overstates its remaining size for every block after them, the slack check fails, and the rest of the frame runs the safe variant. perf on a Neoverse N1 showed 78% of DecodeAll inside sequenceDecs_decodeSync_safe_arm64 on such a frame.

The bound can only be overstated, so this was never a correctness issue, just the slow copies being selected. The fix subtracts raw and RLE block sizes too, landing on zero (the existing "no bound" value, which selects the conservative paths) if a block meets or exceeds the bound; runDecoder's frame-size checks reject the excess afterwards.

Measurements

Neoverse N1 (Ampere Altra), DecodeAll of 70 MB frames whose first 4 MiB is random data, checksum off, -count 5:

match offsets	before	after
under 32 KiB	43.8 ms	36.4 ms (−17%)
128–768 KiB	61.3 ms	54.3 ms (−11%)
1–2 MiB	87.7 ms	81.2 ms (−7%)

Entirely from the fast copy variant being selected again. Frames without raw blocks are unaffected: the silesia files and the benchdecoder corpus never hit this (probe counted zero safe selections on a silesia subset).

amd64 not measured yet; the selection logic is shared, so the same behavior is expected there.

Test

TestMaxSyncLenTracksEveryBlockType walks two frames block by block with DecodeAll's buffer geometry — an encoder-produced frame that opens with raw blocks then compressed ones, and a hand-built frame with a raw block then an RLE block (the encoder never emits RLE) — and asserts after every block that maxSyncLen equals the bytes still to produce. It fails on the first raw block without the fix.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved streaming decompression accounting for raw and run-length encoded blocks.
  • Ensured remaining output length is tracked correctly across all supported block types, including compressed blocks containing only literals.
  • Added validation covering mixed raw, run-length encoded, and compressed data blocks.

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The decoder now updates maxSyncLen after raw, RLE, and literal-only compressed blocks. New tests verify tracking against remaining decoded output across these block types.

Changes

Sync-length accounting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Block sync-length updates zstd/seqdec.go, zstd/blockdec.go	sequenceDecs now consumes decoded bytes from maxSyncLen. Raw, RLE, and literal-only compressed block paths update this state after appending data.
All block types validation zstd/maxsynclen_test.go	New tests construct and walk frames block by block. They verify maxSyncLen and decoded output for raw, RLE, and compressed blocks.

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Sync-length tracking now includes literal-only compressed blocks, preserving the intended fast-path selection without changing decoded output behavior.

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zstd/blockdec.go (1)

490-492: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Account for literals-only compressed blocks.

When hist.decoders.nSeqs == 0, decodeCompressed appends the literals and returns without reducing maxSyncLen. The sequence path accounts for its output after decodeSync, but a literals-only block can leave maxSyncLen overstated. Later sequence blocks may then use bounds-exact copies instead of the extended-copy optimization.

 if hist.decoders.nSeqs == 0 {
 	b.dst = append(b.dst, hist.decoders.literals...)
+	hist.decoders.consumeSyncLen(len(hist.decoders.literals))
 	return nil
 }

Add a deterministic literals-only compressed-block case to zstd/maxsynclen_test.go and assert maxSyncLen after that block.

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In `@zstd/blockdec.go` around lines 490 - 492, Update decodeCompressed’s
hist.decoders.nSeqs == 0 branch to reduce maxSyncLen based on the literals-only
block output before returning, matching the accounting performed by the sequence
path. Add a deterministic literals-only compressed-block case in maxsynclen
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In `@zstd/blockdec.go`:
- Around line 490-492: Update decodeCompressed’s hist.decoders.nSeqs == 0 branch
to reduce maxSyncLen based on the literals-only block output before returning,
matching the accounting performed by the sequence path. Add a deterministic
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