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Announcing Blosc 1.2.2
A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library
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What is new?
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- All important warnings removed for all tested platforms. This
allows less intrusive compilation experiences with applications
including Blosc source code.
- The `bench/bench.c` has been updated so that it can be compiled on
Windows again.
- The new web site has been set to: http://www.blosc.org
For more info, please see the release notes in:
https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc/wiki/Release-notes
What is it?
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Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is a high performance compressor
optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to
the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed,
direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call.
Blosc is the first compressor (that I'm aware of) that is meant not
only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but
also to accelerate object manipulations that are memory-bound.
There is also a handy command line for Blosc called Bloscpack
(https://github.com/esc/bloscpack) that allows you to compress large
binary datafiles on-disk. Although the format for Bloscpack has not
stabilized yet, it allows you to effectively use Blosc from you
favorite shell.
Download sources
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For more details on what it is, please go to main web site:
http://www.blosc.org/
The github repository is over here:
https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc
Blosc is distributed using the MIT license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for
details.
Mailing list
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There is an official Blosc mailing list at:
bl...@go...
http://groups.google.es/group/blosc
Enjoy Data!
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Francesc Alted
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