Return the compressor library/format used in a compressed buffer.
Return information about a compressed buffer, namely the type size
(typesize), as well as some internal flags.
Return information about a compressed buffer, namely the number of
uncompressed bytes (nbytes) and compressed (cbytes). It also
returns the blocksize (which is used internally for doing the
compression by blocks).
Return information about a compressed buffer, namely the internal
Blosc format version (version) and the format for the internal
Lempel-Ziv compressor used (versionlz).
Get the compname associated with the compcode.
Return the compressor code associated with the compressor name.
Compress a block of data in the src buffer and returns the size of
compressed block. The size of src buffer is specified by
nbytes. There is not a minimum for src buffer size (nbytes).
Context interface to blosc compression. This does not require a call
to blosc_init() and can be called from multithreaded applications
without the global lock being used, so allowing Blosc be executed
simultaneously in those scenarios.
Decompress a block of compressed data in src, put the result in
dest and returns the size of the decompressed block.
Context interface to blosc decompression. This does not require a
call to blosc_init() and can be called from multithreaded
applications without the global lock being used, so allowing Blosc
be executed simultaneously in those scenarios.
Destroy the Blosc library environment.
Free possible memory temporaries and thread resources. Use this
when you are not going to use Blosc for a long while. In case of
problems releasing the resources, it returns a negative number, else
it returns 0.
Get info from compression libraries included in the current build.
In compname you pass the compressor name that you want info from.
In complib and version you get the compression library name and
version (if available) as output.
Return the version of blosc in string format.
Get nitems (of typesize size) in src buffer starting in start.
The items are returned in dest buffer, which has to have enough
space for storing all items.
Initialize the Blosc library environment.
Get a list of compressors supported in the current build. The
returned value is a string with a concatenation of “blosclz”, “lz4”,
“lz4hc”, “snappy” or “zlib” separated by commas, depending on which
ones are present in the build.
Force the use of a specific blocksize. If 0, an automatic
blocksize will be used (the default).
Select the compressor to be used. The supported ones are “blosclz”,
“lz4”, “lz4hc”, “snappy” and “zlib”. If this function is not
called, then “blosclz” will be used.
Initialize a pool of threads for compression/decompression. If
nthreads is 1, then the serial version is chosen and a possible
previous existing pool is ended. If this is not called, nthreads
is set to 1 internally.