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+// Copyright (c) 2017, Steinar H. Gunderson
+// All rights reserved.
+// 
+// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+// modification, are permitted.
+// 
+// THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+// “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+// LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
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+// OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+#include "renormalize.h"
+
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <math.h>
+
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <map>
+#include <memory>
+#include <utility>
+
+using std::equal_to;
+using std::hash;
+using std::max;
+using std::min;
+using std::make_pair;
+using std::pair;
+using std::unique_ptr;
+using std::unordered_map;
+
+namespace {
+
+struct OptimalChoice {
+       double cost;  // In bits.
+       uint32_t chosen_freq;
+};
+struct CacheKey {
+       int num_syms;
+       int available_slots;
+
+       bool operator== (const CacheKey &other) const
+       {
+               return num_syms == other.num_syms && available_slots == other.available_slots;
+       }
+};
+struct HashCacheKey {
+       size_t operator() (const CacheKey &key) const
+       {
+               return hash<int64_t>()((uint64_t(key.available_slots) << 32) | key.num_syms);
+       }
+};
+using CacheMap = unordered_map<CacheKey, OptimalChoice, HashCacheKey>;
+
+// Find, recursively, the optimal cost of encoding the symbols [0, num_syms),
+// assuming an optimal distribution of those symbols to "available_slots".
+// The cache is used for memoization, and also to remember the best choice.
+// No frequency can be zero.
+//
+// Returns HUGE_VAL if there's no legal mapping.
+double FindOptimalCost(uint32_t *cum_freqs, int num_syms, int available_slots, const double *log2cache, CacheMap *cache)
+{
+       static int k = 0;
+       if (num_syms == 0) {
+               // Encoding zero symbols needs zero bits.
+               return 0.0;
+       }
+       if (num_syms > available_slots) {
+               // Every (non-zero-frequency) symbol needs at least one slot.
+               return HUGE_VAL;
+       }
+       if (num_syms == 1) {
+               return cum_freqs[1] * log2cache[available_slots];
+       }
+
+       CacheKey cache_key{num_syms, available_slots};
+       auto insert_result = cache->insert(make_pair(cache_key, OptimalChoice()));
+       if (!insert_result.second) {
+               // There was already an item in the cache, so return it.
+               return insert_result.first->second.cost;
+       }
+
+       // Minimize the number of total bits spent as a function of how many slots
+       // we assign to this symbol.
+       //
+       // The cost function is convex (at least in practice; I suppose also in
+       // theory because it's the sum of an increasing and a decreasing function?).
+       // Find a reasonable guess and see in what direction the function is decreasing,
+       // then iterate until we either hit the end or we start increasing again.
+       //
+       // Since the function is a sum of log() terms, it is differentiable, and we
+       // could in theory use this; however, it doesn't seem to be worth the complexity.
+       uint32_t freq = cum_freqs[num_syms] - cum_freqs[num_syms - 1];
+       assert(freq > 0);
+       double guess = lrint(available_slots * double(freq) / cum_freqs[num_syms]);
+
+       int x1 = max<int>(floor(guess), 1);
+       int x2 = x1 + 1;
+
+       double cost1 = freq * log2cache[x1] + FindOptimalCost(cum_freqs, num_syms - 1, available_slots - x1, log2cache, cache);
+       double cost2 = freq * log2cache[x2] + FindOptimalCost(cum_freqs, num_syms - 1, available_slots - x2, log2cache, cache);
+
+       int x;
+       int direction;  // -1 or +1.
+       double best_cost;
+       if (isinf(cost1) && isinf(cost2)) {
+               // The cost isn't infinite due to the first term, so we need to go downwards
+               // to give the second term more room to breathe.
+               x = x1;
+               best_cost = cost1;
+               direction = -1;
+       } else if (cost1 < cost2) {
+               x = x1;
+               best_cost = cost1;
+               direction = -1;
+       } else {
+               x = x2;
+               best_cost = cost2;
+               direction = 1;
+       }
+       int best_choice = x;
+
+       for ( ;; ) {
+               x += direction;
+               if (x == 0 || x > available_slots) {
+                       // We hit the end; we can't assign zero slots to this symbol,
+                       // and we can't assign more slots than we have. This extreme
+                       // is the best choice.
+                       break;
+               }
+               double cost = freq * log2cache[x] + FindOptimalCost(cum_freqs, num_syms - 1, available_slots - x, log2cache, cache);
+               if (cost > best_cost) {
+                       // The cost started increasing again, so we've found the optimal choice.
+                       break;
+               }
+               best_choice = x;
+               best_cost = cost;
+       }
+       insert_result.first->second.cost = best_cost;
+       insert_result.first->second.chosen_freq = best_choice;
+       return best_cost;
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+void OptimalRenormalize(uint32_t *cum_freqs, uint32_t num_syms, uint32_t target_total)
+{
+       // First remove all symbols that have a zero frequency; they tend to
+       // complicate the analysis. We'll put them back afterwards.
+       unique_ptr<uint32_t[]> remapped_cum_freqs(new uint32_t[num_syms + 1]);
+       unique_ptr<uint32_t[]> mapping(new uint32_t[num_syms + 1]);
+
+       uint32_t new_num_syms = 0;
+       remapped_cum_freqs[0] = 0;
+       for (uint32_t i = 0; i < num_syms; ++i) {
+               if (cum_freqs[i + 1] == cum_freqs[i]) {
+                       continue;
+               }
+               mapping[new_num_syms] = i;
+               remapped_cum_freqs[new_num_syms + 1] = cum_freqs[i + 1];
+               new_num_syms++;
+       }
+
+       // Calculate the cost of encoding a symbol with frequency f/target_total.
+       // We call log2() quite a lot, so it's best to cache it once at the start.
+       unique_ptr<double[]> log2cache(new double[target_total + 1]);
+       for (uint32_t i = 0; i <= target_total; ++i) {
+               log2cache[i] = -log2(i * (1.0 / target_total));
+       }
+
+       CacheMap cache;
+       FindOptimalCost(remapped_cum_freqs.get(), new_num_syms, target_total, log2cache.get(), &cache);
+
+       for (uint32_t i = 0; i <= num_syms; ++i) {
+               cum_freqs[i] = 0;
+       }
+
+       // Reconstruct the optimal choices from the cache. Note that during this,
+       // cum_freq contains frequencies, _not_ cumulative frequencies.
+       int available_slots = target_total;
+       for (int symbol_idx = new_num_syms; symbol_idx --> 0; ) {  // :-)
+               uint32_t freq;
+               if (symbol_idx == 0) {
+                       // Last symbol isn't in the cache, but it's obvious what the answer is.
+                       freq = available_slots;
+               } else {
+                       CacheKey cache_key{symbol_idx + 1, available_slots};
+                       assert(cache.count(cache_key));
+                       freq = cache[cache_key].chosen_freq;
+               }
+               cum_freqs[mapping[symbol_idx]] = freq;
+               assert(available_slots >= freq);
+               available_slots -= freq;
+       }
+
+       // Convert the frequencies back to cumulative frequencies.
+       uint32_t total = 0;
+       for (uint32_t i = 0; i <= num_syms; ++i) {
+               uint32_t freq = cum_freqs[i];
+               cum_freqs[i] = total;
+               total += freq;
+       }
+}