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I'd like to thank the PyTables community that have collaborated in the
exhaustive testing of Blosc. With an aggregate amount of more than
300 TB of different datasets compressed *and* decompressed
successfully, I can say that Blosc is pretty safe now and ready for
production purposes.
Other important contributions:
* Valentin Haenel did a terrific work implementing the support for the
Snappy compression, fixing typos and improving docs and the plotting
script.
* Thibault North, with ideas from Oscar Villellas, contributed a way
to call Blosc from different threads in a safe way. Christopher
Speller introduced contexts so that a global lock is not necessary
anymore.
* The CMake support was initially contributed by Thibault North, and
Antonio Valentino and Mark Wiebe made great enhancements to it.
* Christopher Speller also introduced the two new '_ctx' calls to
avoid the use of the blosc_init() and blosc_destroy().
* Jack Pappas contributed important portability enhancements,
specially runtime and cross-platform detection of SSE2/AVX2 as well
as high precision timers (HPET) for the benchmark program.
* @littlezhou implemented the AVX2 version of shuffle routines.
* Julian Taylor contributed a way to detect AVX2 in runtime and
calling the appropriate routines only if the underlying hardware
supports it.
* Kiyo Masui for relicensing his bitshuffle project for allowing the
inclusion of part of his code in Blosc.
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