2 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 99c0405..db70df9 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         - finally disable rep movsb - it's a big loss on modern intel cpus,
           and only a small win on amd cpus.
         - improve c++ compatibility of the code.
+        - slightly improve compressor speed.
 
 3.5  Fri May  1 02:28:42 CEST 2009
 	- lzf_compress did sometimes write one octet past the given output
diff --git a/lzf_c.c b/lzf_c.c
index 85b861b..1878954 100644
--- a/lzf_c.c
+++ b/lzf_c.c
@@ -155,13 +155,11 @@ lzf_compress (const void *const in_data, unsigned int in_len,
           && (off = ip - ref - 1) < MAX_OFF
           && ip + 4 < in_end
           && ref > (u8 *)in_data
-#if STRICT_ALIGN
-          && ref[0] == ip[0]
-          && ref[1] == ip[1]
           && ref[2] == ip[2]
+#if STRICT_ALIGN
+          && (ref[1] << 8) | ref[0] == (ip[1] << 8) | ip[0]
 #else
           && *(u16 *)ref == *(u16 *)ip
-          && ref[2] == ip[2]
 #endif
         )
         {