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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