Large Scale Bloscpack Benchmarking Utilities

Some utilities for running and analysing Bloscpack benchmarks.

Derived from: https://github.com/esc/euroscipy2013-talk-bloscpack

Licence: MIT

Running the Benchmarks

You need root access to run these benchmarks, since it will be dropping the file system caches. If you are using Anconda, the following incantation using sudo might help:

.. code-block:: console

$ sudo env PATH=$PATH PYTHONPATH=. python benchmark.py