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docs: README — one datatypes row for complex writing and small floats
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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| **File format** | Superblock v0–v3, user blocks, v1/v2 object headers | Metadata cache images | Writing files HDF5 1.8 can read | | **File format** | Superblock v0–v3, user blocks, v1/v2 object headers | Metadata cache images | Writing files HDF5 1.8 can read |
| **Groups and links** | Symbol-table, compact and dense groups (tested to 100 000 links), creation order, soft and hard links; writing external links | | Following external links (explicit error); user-defined links are skipped | | **Groups and links** | Symbol-table, compact and dense groups (tested to 100 000 links), creation order, soft and hard links; writing external links | | Following external links (explicit error); user-defined links are skipped |
| **Datatypes** | Integers and IEEE floats of every width and byte order (incl. `f16`), enums, compounds (every version, incl. HDF5 2.0's v5), arrays, fixed-length strings, opaque, complex (HDF5 2.0 class 11) | Variable-length strings and sequences, object references; HDF5 2.x's small floats (bfloat16, FP8 E4M3/E5M2, FP6 E2M3/E3M2, FP4 E2M1: every bit pattern decoded as libhdf5 2.2.0 decodes it) and other non-IEEE floats up to 64 bits | Writing variable-length data; writing non-IEEE floats; decoding region and attribute references; x87 long double and binary128 | | **Datatypes** | Integers and IEEE floats of every width and byte order (incl. `f16`), enums, compounds (every version, incl. HDF5 2.0's v5), arrays, fixed-length strings, opaque, complex: h5py's `{r, i}` compound (`with_complex_f64_data`) and HDF5 2.0's native class 11 (`with_native_complex_f64_data`, opt-in: only libhdf5 2.0+ reads it; reads surface it as `{r, i}`) | Variable-length strings and sequences, object references; HDF5 2.x's small floats (bfloat16, FP8 E4M3/E5M2, FP6 E2M3/E3M2, FP4 E2M1: every bit pattern decoded as libhdf5 2.2.0 decodes it) and other non-IEEE floats up to 64 bits | Writing variable-length data; writing non-IEEE floats; decoding region and attribute references; x87 long double and binary128 |
| **Datatypes** | Integers and IEEE floats of every width and byte order (incl. `f16`), enums, compounds (every version, incl. HDF5 2.0's v5), arrays, fixed-length strings, opaque, complex: h5py's `{r, i}` compound (`with_complex_f64_data`) and HDF5 2.0's native class 11 (`with_native_complex_f64_data`, opt-in: only libhdf5 2.0+ reads it; reads surface it as `{r, i}`) | Variable-length strings and sequences, object references | Writing variable-length data; decoding region and attribute references; x87 long double and binary128 |
| **Layouts and chunk indexes** | Compact, contiguous and chunked; chunk indexes single chunk, Fixed Array, Extensible Array and v2 B-tree (the writer picks one as libhdf5 does); fill values; resizable datasets; virtual datasets (read limits in known-issues) | Chunk indexes v1 B-tree and implicit (the editor also changes them) | External raw data files (explicit error) | | **Layouts and chunk indexes** | Compact, contiguous and chunked; chunk indexes single chunk, Fixed Array, Extensible Array and v2 B-tree (the writer picks one as libhdf5 does); fill values; resizable datasets; virtual datasets (read limits in known-issues) | Chunk indexes v1 B-tree and implicit (the editor also changes them) | External raw data files (explicit error) |
| **Filters** | deflate (pure-Rust zlib-rs), shuffle, Fletcher-32, LZ4 (opt-in), Zstd (C, opt-in); plugins LZF, bitshuffle, bzip2, Blosc 1 | N-Bit, scale-offset, SZIP (C, opt-in); plugins Blosc2 and ZFP | Other filter IDs, unless you register a codec (`filter_registry::register_filter`) | | **Filters** | deflate (pure-Rust zlib-rs), shuffle, Fletcher-32, LZ4 (opt-in), Zstd (C, opt-in); plugins LZF, bitshuffle, bzip2, Blosc 1 | N-Bit, scale-offset, SZIP (C, opt-in); plugins Blosc2 and ZFP | Other filter IDs, unless you register a codec (`filter_registry::register_filter`) |
| **Editing in place** | `FileEditor`: overwrite values, grow and shrink chunked datasets (every index), set attributes (compact and dense), in files from h5py or clawhdf5 | | Creating or deleting objects in an existing file; deleting attributes; new chunks in implicit indexes; VL data; filters this build cannot encode (refused before any write) | | **Editing in place** | `FileEditor`: overwrite values, grow and shrink chunked datasets (every index), set attributes (compact and dense), in files from h5py or clawhdf5 | | Creating or deleting objects in an existing file; deleting attributes; new chunks in implicit indexes; VL data; filters this build cannot encode (refused before any write) |