On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:58:25 PM UTC-4, Jake Bolewski wrote: > > It would be best to incorporate it into the HDF5 package. A julia package > would be useful if you wanted to do the same sort of compression on Julia > binary blobs, such as serialized julia values in an IOBuffer. >
Wouldn't it be better to have a separate Blosc.jl package that is used by HDF5.jl? After all, there are presumably many other applications of this. Note that HDF5 has a Blosc filter (http://www.hdfgroup.org/services/filters.html#blosc and https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc/tree/master/hdf5), so that I guess you can use Blosc internally in the HDF5 file while still allowing HDF5 tools to work with the file.
