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c-blosc

brew install c-blosc v1.21.6 BSD-3-Clause

C library for fast, block-oriented lossless compression with shuffle filters.

Why you might care

Blosc excels at compressing columnar data and scientific arrays where block-level operations and shuffling can dramatically improve compression ratios. It's a build dependency for data processing libraries like HDF5 and NumPy, offering single-algorithm simplicity with optional hardware acceleration. Choose it if you need speed and transparency over general-purpose compression.

Categories

compression library

Alternatives

zlib zstd lz4
2.7k
30-day installs · #839
8.4k
90-day · #882
34.8k
365-day · #824

Build dependencies

cmake

Links

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