Given that it's the decompression speed that is typically the "user-facing" part in many contexts (with compression being done by automatic jobs etc), such a di

Given that it's the decompression speed that is typically the "user-facing" part in many contexts (with compression being done by automatic jobs etc), such a difference in decompression speed is pretty awesome indeed. (which is also what makes it a near-perfect codec for HDF5, via blosc-hdf5)