source: thirdparty/blosc/ANNOUNCE.rst @ 981e22c

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 Announcing c-blosc 1.10.0
 A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library for C
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What is new?
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This release introduces support for the new Zstd codec. Zstd is meant to
achieve larger compression ratios than Zlib, but with higher speeds. We
are talking about a well-balanced codec that should see a lot of use
among Blosc users. There is a blog about what you can expect of it in:

http://blosc.org/blog/zstd-has-just-landed-in-blosc.html

For more info, please see the release notes in:

https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.rst


What is it?
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Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is a high performance meta-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 has internal support for different compressors like its internal
BloscLZ, but also LZ4, LZ4HC, Snappy and Zlib.  This way these can
automatically leverage the multithreading and pre-filtering
(shuffling) capabilities that comes with Blosc.


Download sources
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Please go to main web site:

http://www.blosc.org/

and proceed from there.  The github repository is over here:

https://github.com/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:

[email protected]
http://groups.google.es/group/blosc


Enjoy Data!