francescalted.bsky.social

25 March 2026 07:43

Look at the bump in performance that we will see with the next Python-Blosc2 release. Matrix multiplication has been speeded up by using blocks and Blosc2 prefilters and its own efficient and multithreaded engine. Expect between 5x and 6x better speed for matrices with no padding.

luke.shaw@ironarray.io

lshaw-ironarray.bsky.social

04 March 2026 11:58

Blosc2 4.1 Release! We've packed this minor release: optimised compression and funcs for unicode arrays; cumulative reductions; memory-map support for store containers like `DictStore` ; and a DSL kernel functionality for faster, compiled, user-defined funcs!👇️ Notebook - github.com/Blosc/python...)

luke.shaw@ironarray.io

lshaw-ironarray.bsky.social

30 January 2026 12:43

📢 Blosc2 🤝 OpenZL 🔁 Use the OpenZL compression 🗜️ library from Blosc2: github.com/Blosc/blosc2...! 𝚙̲𝚒̲𝚙̲ ̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚜̲𝚝̲𝚊̲𝚕̲𝚕̲ ̲𝚋̲𝚕̲𝚘̲𝚜̲𝚌̲𝟸̲–̲𝚘̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚣̲𝚕̲ and just like that, OpenZL compression + Blosc2 compute engine! Check out the OpenZL project openzl.org. Inside story on the plugin ⏩️ blosc.org/posts/openzl...

francescalted.bsky.social

27 November 2025 17:12

🤔 Can a library that computes on compressed data actually outperform performance heavyweights like NumPy and NumExpr? Find some surprising answers 👉 www.blosc.org/posts/roofli... During the walk, I'm also introducing a funny anecdote back when NumPy was a 👶 Enjoy! #Blosc2 #HPC #NumPy #Numexpr

luke.shaw@ironarray.io

lshaw-ironarray.bsky.social

25 November 2025 16:35

To round off our presentation of the shiny new Cat2Cloud product, we have a final 💊 ironPill 💊on data handling from the web client 🌐 . See how to move ➡️ , copy ©️ and perform other file management operations easily from the prompt box! Stop downloading, start doing! 🔨