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clawhdf5/crates/clawhdf5-format
osobhandClaude Opus 5.5 2bc4cb46a6 perf: copy contiguous hyperslab and point reads run by run
A 256 x 256 hyperslab of a contiguous f32 dataset read at an eighth of
h5py's speed: partial_read copied the bounding box out of the file, the
extractor then walked it element by element (a recursive call and two
bounds checks per element) into a second buffer, and read_f32_selection
converted that into a third.

Selections of contiguous data are now copied straight from the file, one
memcpy per run of elements contiguous in the file (gather.rs: a block
along the last dimension, touching blocks as one range, whole rows
merged), with no zero-filled intermediate and no full copy for large
selections. The typed selection readers copy into their Vec<T> directly
when the dataset stores T natively (new data_read::read_selection_native
and sealed NativeElement trait, which the read_as_* fast paths now share;
read_as_u64 gains one) and convert as before otherwise. The general
extractor used by the chunked paths runs on the same run walker, keeping
its old handling of unvalidated selections.

Checked against h5py (contiguous_read_interop.rs) for strided, blocked,
adjacent-block and whole-row hyperslabs, points and empty selections of
every 1-8-byte type in both byte orders, ranks 1-4.

Also keeps the huge-page threshold constant out of no_std builds, where
it was unused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-09-26 08:21:47 -05:00
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clawhdf5-format

crates.io docs.rs

Pure-Rust HDF5 binary format parsing and writing — no C dependencies.

Features

  • Zero-copy superblock, object header, and B-tree parsing
  • Chunked dataset read/write with filter pipelines
  • no_std support (disable std feature)
  • Optional parallel reads via Rayon
  • SHA-256 provenance tracking

Usage

use clawhdf5_format::Superblock;

let data = std::fs::read("data.h5").unwrap();
let sb = Superblock::from_bytes(&data).unwrap();
println!("HDF5 version {}.{}", sb.version_major(), sb.version_minor());

License

MIT