ANNOUNCE.rst

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 Announcing Blosc 1.1.6
 A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library
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What is new?
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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://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.

Download sources
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Please go to main web site:

http://blosc.pytables.org/sources/

or the github repository:

https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc

and download the most recent release from there.

Blosc is distributed using the MIT license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for
details.

Mailing list
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There is an official Blosc blosc mailing list at:

blosc@googlegroups.com
http://groups.google.es/group/blosc