bordingj

EAFP when reading schunk and use ujson if available

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use try/except when reading chunk instead of using os.path.exists

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I found that a significant amount of time is spend in built-in method nt.stat() when reading in a carray. The nt.stat() is used by os.path.exists() which is called every time...

use faster json library if available

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attrs are currently read and written using the standard json library, which is very slow compared to libraries such as ujson (https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson) and pyrapidjson (https://github.com/hhatto/pyrapidjson). I suggest that bcolz should...