FrancescAlted/python-blosc — pull request #4 by esc (2012-09-12 17:49:48+00:00)
Title: smarter handling of compression

Instead of forcing the copy from the malloc'ed string, we compress directly
into a Python string and then use the Python-C-API to resize/realloc that
string.

See also the thread, which includes some favourable benchmarking results:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/blosc/_DP8izHqp74