Thanks Francesc!
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Francesc Alted <fal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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