Lachlan Deakin

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icon company @MaterialsPhysicsANU icon location Australia icon location PhD student at the Australian National University, Australia. I develop algorithms for analysis and visualisation of high-res 3D volumetric images on clusters.

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Investigate Rust-Based Python-Accessed Stores

This is getting a bit derailed (but is very interesting!). See below for some newly added async vs sync `zarrs` benchmarks: - Inner chunk reading benchmark https://github.com/LDeakin/zarr_benchmarks/pull/8 - **`zarr-python` is...

Investigate Rust-Based Python-Accessed Stores

@JackKelly another Zarr benchmark repo spotted: https://github.com/HEFTIEProject/zarr-benchmarks

Add support for structured data types

Zarr V2 has structured data type support, should start with compatibility support for that.

Iterator optimisation

Lending iterators are proposed as a 2025H2 rust project goal

compatibility with the v3 bytes dtype

`vlen-bytes` is the codec for that data type, but the data type name is `variable_length_bytes`. It wouldn't be unreasonable to me to extend the spec of `bytes` to allow base64...