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diff --git a/libraries/c-blosc/slack-desc b/libraries/c-blosc/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e35479e209 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/c-blosc/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +c-blosc: c-blosc (a high performance compressor optimized for binary data) +c-blosc: +c-blosc: It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster +c-blosc: than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach +c-blosc: via a memcpy() OS call. Blosc is the first compressor that is meant +c-blosc: not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, +c-blosc: but also to accelerate memory-bound computations. +c-blosc: It uses the blocking technique so as to reduce activity in the +c-blosc: memory bus as much as possible. In short, this technique works by +c-blosc: dividing datasets in blocks that are small enough to fit in caches. +c-blosc: |