Hi, I'm happy to announce the availability of Blosc 1.2.1 RC1. This is mainly a fix for a problem with multithreading on Windows platforms. The fix was important enough for deserving the version bump. Thanks a lot to Christian Gohlke for proposing the fix: it works really well.
It exists currently just as a tag in the github repo (https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc), so you can fetch it as: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc/archive/v1.2.1-rc1.tar.gz Please give it a go and tell me how it works. If everything goes well, I plan to do an official release real soon now. Francesc =============================================================== Announcing Blosc 1.2.1 A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library =============================================================== What is new? ============ The most important features for this release are support for cmake (tested on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows) and thread safety calls of Blosc functions from threaded apps. Many thanks for those who contributed to this release: Thibault North, Antonio Valentino, Mark Wiebe, Valentin Haenel and Christoph Gohlke. For more info, please see the release notes in: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/blosc/wiki/Release-notes What is it? =========== 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 ================ 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 ============ There is an official Blosc blosc mailing list at: bl...@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.es/group/blosc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
