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Choose a faster default compressor #266

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ziw-liu opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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Choose a faster default compressor #266

ziw-liu opened this issue Jan 21, 2025 · 0 comments
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NGFF OME-NGFF (OME-Zarr format) performance Speed and memory usage of the code

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ziw-liu commented Jan 21, 2025

@shinzlet found that zstd compression that we use as default in iohub makes I/O much slower for zarr arrays without significant (<5%) disk space gain. The best choice seems to be among the on-the-wire flavor of compressors, which is unsurprising considering that zarr-python's default is lz4.

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