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For more info, please see the RELEASE_NOTES.txt file.
Blosc (http://blosc.pytables.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.
It also comes with a filter for HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5) so that you can easily implement support for Blosc in your favourite HDF5 tool.
Please go to:
http://blosc.pytables.org/sources/
and download the stable release from here.
Blosc is distributed using the MIT license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for details.
There is an official Blosc blosc mailing list at:
blosc@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.es/group/blosc
Enjoy data!