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Some conventions used in C-Blosc2

  • Use C99 designated initialization whenever possible (specially in examples).
  • Use _new and _free for memory allocating constructors and destructors and _init and _destroy for non-memory allocating constructors and destructors.

Naming things

Naming is one of the most time-consuming tasks, but critical for communicating effectively. Here it is a preliminary list of names that I am not comfortable with:

  • We are currently calling filters to a data transformation function that essentially produces the same amount of data, but with bytes shuffled or transformed in different ways. Perhaps transformers would be a better name?