biocore/biom-format — pull request #563 by wasade (2014-11-19 19:51:11+00:00)
Title: Order of magnitude improvement on HDF5 parser speed

Fixes #529

@josenavas and @adamrp, can you review please?

Former parsing:

```python
> %timeit t = load_table('../American-Gut/data/AG/AG.biom')
1 loops, best of 3: 4.91 s per loop
```

New parsing:

```python
> %timeit t = load_table('../American-Gut/data/AG/AG.biom')
1 loops, best of 3: 383 ms per loop
```