ANN: C-Blosc 1.15.0 released

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Francesc Alted

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 Announcing C-Blosc 1.15.0
 A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library for C
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What is new?
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In this release, the `blosc_compress()` and `blosc_decompress()` interfaces
are now fork-safe, preventing child-process deadlocks in fork-based
multiprocessing applications. These interfaces with BLOSC_NOLOCK were, and
continue to be, fork-safe. `_ctx` interface context reuse continues to be
unsafe in the child process post-fork.  Thanks to Alex Ford.

Also, a few bugs have been fixed, more compatibility with oldish compilers
and LZ4 and Zstd codecs have been updated to their latest versions.

For more info, please see the release notes in:



What is it?
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Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is a high performance meta-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 has internal support for different compressors like its internal
BloscLZ, but also LZ4, LZ4HC, Snappy, Zlib and Zstd.  This way these can
automatically leverage the multithreading and pre-filtering
(shuffling) capabilities that comes with Blosc.


Download sources
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The github repository is over here:


Blosc is distributed using the BSD license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for
details.


Mailing list
============

There is an official Blosc mailing list at:



Enjoy Data!



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