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Add fastest block-splitter variant
this fastest variant is less precise but its speed is suitable for fast strategy.
since it remains within noise level (<2%) even at negative compression levels (tested up to -7).
silesia.tar :
| level | dev |
this PR | savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73,422,067 | 73,193,855 | -228,212 |
| 2 | 69,503,582 | 69,309,934 | -193,648 |
The impact for negative compression levels is negligible, likely due to the disabling of the huffman literal compression stage, but nonetheless remains generally positive by a small margin.