[CORRECTION] python-blosc 1.2.4 released (Was: ANN: python-blosc 1.2.7 released)

[Francesc Alted]

Indeed it was 1.2.4 the version just released and not 1.2.7.  Sorry for 
the typo!

Francesc

On 7/7/14, 8:20 PM, Francesc Alted wrote:
> =============================
> Announcing python-blosc 1.2.4
> =============================
>
> What is new?
> ============
>
> This is a maintenance release, where included c-blosc sources have been
> updated to 1.4.0.  This adds support for non-Intel architectures, most
> specially those not supporting unaligned access.
>
> For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
>
> https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/wiki/Release-notes
>
> More docs and examples are available in the documentation site:
>
> http://python-blosc.blosc.org
>
>
> 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 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
> (http://www.blosc.org/docs/StarvingCPUs.pdf).  See
> http://www.blosc.org/synthetic-benchmarks.html for some benchmarks on
> how much speed it can achieve in some datasets.
>
> 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.
>
> python-blosc (http://python-blosc.blosc.org/) is the Python wrapper for
> the Blosc compression library.
>
> There is also a handy command line and Python library for Blosc called
> Bloscpack (https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack) that allows you to
> compress large binary datafiles on-disk.
>
>
> Installing
> ==========
>
> python-blosc is in PyPI repository, so installing it is easy:
>
> $ pip install -U blosc  # yes, you should omit the python- prefix
>
>
> Download sources
> ================
>
> The sources are managed through github services at:
>
> http://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc
>
>
> Documentation
> =============
>
> There is Sphinx-based documentation site at:
>
> http://python-blosc.blosc.org/
>
>
> Mailing list
> ============
>
> There is an official mailing list for Blosc at:
>
> blosc at googlegroups.com
> http://groups.google.es/group/blosc
>
>
> Licenses
> ========
>
> Both Blosc and its Python wrapper are distributed using the MIT license.
> See:
>
> https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/blob/master/LICENSES
>
> for more details.
>
> ----
>
>   **Enjoy data!**
>


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Francesc Alted