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Summary

• The binary-tree search behind levels 16-22 (btopt, btultra, btultra2) does less work per searched position: 295 instructions per search against upstream's 260 (1.13x), down from 364 (1.40x), with every frame byte-identical to main.

Changes

• Tree walk in one stored coordinate, as upstream walks matchIndex: the floor test, the candidate's bytes and the offset come from the stored index; the window gate is one compare; the two open sides are pointers, a closed side points at a dummy.
• The block chooses the search for its key width once and calls it through a function pointer (upstream ZSTD_selectBtGetAllMatches), so the hashes take the width as a constant.
• One unsigned compare gates a repeat; the hash3 probe drops checks its strategy guarantees; the search checks the remaining length once; the pass clamps the insert cursor.
• Candidates go into room the pass reserves for the most one search can produce (HC_OPT_CANDIDATE_CAPACITY, held by a compile-time check on every tree strategy's compare budget), not through a growing push.
• HcConfig::search_mls documents upstream's hashing (ZSTD_hashPtr hashes a minMatch of 3 on four bytes) and why an explicit minMatch of 3 keeps a three-byte key here.

Measurements

x86 host with hardware counters (Xeon E5-1650 v4), prebuilt binaries interleaved, median of three rounds of perf stat -r 3; cycles, main / this branch / libzstd 1.5.7:

input	level	main	branch	libzstd
z000033, 10 KiB × 200	16	1308M	1201M	1063M
	19	1294M	1202M	1074M
	22	1303M	1202M	1069M
z000033, 1 MiB × 2	16	806M	778M	766M
	19	1381M	1297M	1435M
	22	1518M	1444M	1868M
source text, 256 KiB × 8	16	1656M	1521M	1644M
	19	2474M	2273M	2582M
	22	2726M	2537M	3265M
z000033, 10 KiB × 2000 (control, no tree search)	3	806M	793M	525M

Search instructions (callgrind, 10 KiB at level 19): 297.8M → 241.5M over 818,480 searches. Its share of time matches upstream's (45% against 45.5%), about 1.13x in cycles.

Compressed output is byte-identical to main at levels 3 and 13-22 on four inputs, with a dictionary at levels 13-22, and with --zstd=mml=3.

Testing

• Gates: fmt, clippy in every CI feature set (wasm, no_std, bare-metal x86 included), the codec's tests on macOS, x86_64 and i686 Linux, the C ABI's, ffi-bench, doc tests and the tests without legacy.
• The candidate search finds the same candidates at every position under each kernel tier the CPU runs.

Closes #545

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The HC optimal parser now selects candidate-collection kernels by key width and reserves a fixed candidate capacity. The match generator updates repeat, hash3, binary-tree, and dictionary candidate collection, including binary-tree traversal and input-bound checks.

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Key-width dispatch and candidate capacity zstd/src/encoding/hc/optimal.rs, zstd/src/encoding/hc/mod.rs, zstd/src/encoding/levels/config.rs, zstd/src/encoding/match_generator/tests.rs	The optimal parser selects a collection kernel for the block’s search key width and passes that width through scalar and SIMD collectors. Candidate buffers use the configured capacity. Comments describe the key-width rules, and the candidate test fixture adds lookahead.
Match generator search and insertion zstd/src/encoding/hc/generator.rs	Candidate insertion for repeat, hash3, binary-tree, and dictionary matches uses reserved storage. Repeat and hash3 probing, input bounds, and binary-tree traversal are updated. Binary-tree traversal uses stored-coordinate bounds and pointer slots.

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Issue #545 requires optimal-finder work at or below 1.15x upstream for the level-19 z000033 benchmark, with byte-identical or smaller output. The PR implements the listed tree-walk, hash-width, hash3, and per-search overhead changes. The reported result is 295 versus upstream 260 instructions per search (1.13x), and the level-19 10 KiB cycle result is 1202M versus 1074M (1.12x). The PR reports byte-identical output and automated coverage for the codec, C ABI, feature sets, doctests, and non-legacy tests.

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