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 is the first compressor (that I'm aware of)
that is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or
in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.
WWW: http://blosc.org/
PR: 220908
Submitted by: Iblis Lin (maintainer)
Reviewed by: matthew (mentor), mat
Approved by: matthew (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11889
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