integrated yet, but it's tested and benchmarked [see commentary section
for further details].

SIZE_T].

saves a bit of space and avoids a compiler warning about string length.

is defined on Windows CE targets.

assembler implementation.

was previously replaced with a NUL for parsing purposes.  This seems to
fix a very weird parsing bug involving two variable references in the same
value.

with a read lock

Submitted by: Leandro Santi <lesanti@fiuba7504.com.ar>

ULONG_PTR, so we replace it with equally wide SIZE_T.

fatal exceptions.

PR: 1196
Submitted by: Russel Ruby

keylength, this time larger improvement for shorter keys, and reaches
15%. Both SSE2 and IALU code pathes are improved.

Submitted by: Marc Bevand and Charles Liu

PR: 1195

PR: 1195

Submitted by: Jonathon Green