Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: BLZ 0.6.1 has been released

2014-01-26 Thread Valentin Haenel
Hi Dinesh Vadhia, * Dinesh Vadhia [2014-01-26]: > For me, "binary data" wrt arrays means that data values are [0|1]. Is this > what is meant in "The compression process is carried out internally by > Blosc, a high-performance compressor that is optimized for binary data." ? I believe, the ter

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: BLZ 0.6.1 has been released

2014-01-26 Thread Dinesh Vadhia
For me, "binary data" wrt arrays means that data values are [0|1]. Is this what is meant in "The compression process is carried out internally by Blosc, a high-performance compressor that is optimized for binary data." ? ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing

[Numpy-discussion] ANN: BLZ 0.6.1 has been released

2014-01-25 Thread Francesc Alted
Announcing BLZ 0.6 series = What it is -- BLZ is a chunked container for numerical data. Chunking allows for efficient enlarging/shrinking of data container. In addition, it can also be compressed for reducing memory/disk needs. The compression process is carrie