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+XZ Utils To-Do List
+===================
+
+Known bugs
+----------
+
+ The test suite is too incomplete.
+
+ If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to
+ automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though
+ it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to
+ HC3/HC4.
+
+ The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading
+ as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should.
+ Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip.
+
+ XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils.
+ This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and
+ can be worked around by using "xz --extreme". However, the presets
+ need some tweaking and maybe this issue can be minimized without
+ making the typical case too much slower.
+
+ xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names
+ given on the command line.
+
+ tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible.
+
+
+Missing features
+----------------
+
+ xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control
+ lists etc. from source to target file.
+
+ Multithreaded compression
+
+ Multithreaded decompression
+
+ Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when
+ decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2).
+
+ I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf.
+
+ lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form?
+ This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with
+ slightly different meanings.
+
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+ Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some
+ extremely well commented example programs, which would work as
+ a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick
+ reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API.
+
+ Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms.
+
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