SPDX standardizes how source code conveys its copyright and licensing
information. See https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/1-rationale/ . SPDX
tags are adopted in many large projects, including things like the Linux
kernel.
By calling ZSTD_CCtx_setPledgedSrcSize, we can let zstd know
how large a chunk is going to be before which start compressing
it, which lets zstd avoid allocating more memory than needed
for various internal buffers. This greatly reduces the RAM usage
when using a high compression level with a small chunk size,
and doesn't have much of an effect in other circumstances.
A side effect of calling ZSTD_CCtx_setPledgedSrcSize is that
zstd by default will write the uncompressed size into the
compressed data stream as metadata. In order to save space,
and since the decompressed size can be figured out through
the structure of the RVZ format anyway, we disable writing
the uncompressed size by setting ZSTD_c_contentSizeFlag to 0.
Shawn Hoffman