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Introduction
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What is python-blosc?
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Blosc (https://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 works well for compressing numerical arrays that contains data
with relatively low entropy, like sparse data, time series, grids with
regular-spaced values, etc.

This is a Python package that wraps it.

Mailing list
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Discussion about this module is welcome in the Blosc list:

blosc@googlegroups.com

https://groups.google.com/g/blosc
