package reed-solomon-erasure

ocaml-reed-solomon-erasure

Documentation

OCaml implementation of Reed-Solomon erasure coding

This is a port of reed-solomon-erasure, which is a port of several other libraries.

The SIMD C code is copied from Nicolas Trangez's Haskell implementation with minor modifications.

Installation

You can install the library via opam

opam install reed-solomon-erasure

Example

open Reed_solomon_erasure

let () =
  let r = ReedSolomon.make 3 2 in (* 3 data shards, 2 parity shards *)

  let master_copy = [|"\000\001\002\003";
                      "\004\005\006\007";
                      "\008\009\010\011";
                      "\000\000\000\000"; (* last 2 rows are parity shards *)
                      "\000\000\000\000"|] in

  (* Construct the parity shards *)
  ReedSolomon.encode_str r master_copy;

  (* Make a copy and transform it into option shards arrangement
     for feeding into reconstruct_opt_str *)
  let shards = RS_Shard_utils.shards_to_option_shards_str master_copy in

  (* We can remove up to 2 shards, which may be data or parity shards *)
  shards.(0) <- None;
  shards.(4) <- None;

  (* Try to reconstruct missing shards *)
  ReedSolomon.reconstruct_opt_str r shards;

  (* Convert back to normal shard arrangement *)
  let result = RS_Shard_utils.option_shards_to_shards_str shards in

  assert (ReedSolomon.verify_str r result);
  assert (master_copy = result)

Performance

The encoding performance is shown below

Machine : laptop with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz (max 2.70GHz) 2 Cores 4 Threads

Changelog

Changelog

Contributions

Contributions are welcome. Note that by submitting contributions, you agree to license your work under the same license used by this project(MIT).

Credits

Many thanks to Ming for testing the library on macOS platform.

Notes

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License

Nicolas Trangez's Haskell Reed-Solomon implementation

The C files for SIMD operations are copied(with no/minor modifications) from Nicolas Trangez's Haskell implementation, and are under the same MIT License as used by NicolasT's project

TL;DR

All files are released under the MIT License