Den 6 sep. 2016 6:33 em skrev "MEYNARD Rolih" <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > I would like to know the reasons why it is required to create chunks for compression on HDF5 ? > > For example Why is not possible to compress dataset without creating of chunks ?
I would assume that without chunks, the entire dataset would need to be decompressed just to access a single value. It's therefore better to create chunks, such that when accessing a value, only the chunk in which it lies must be decompressed. Elvis > > Thank you, > > Rolih > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
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