Constantin Pape

> I guess the question is whether, in practice, one would navigate the data via the "views" or via the folder structure. If one changes ones mind at some point...

I also prefer option2. And as @tischi brought up I think it's important to think about how to map different collections for the same data (or subsets of it), either...

@weilewei If you want to look more into performance, checking out xsimd might be a good idea.

I think this is still relevant

See #198

Yes, it works [with some minor changes](https://github.com/constantinpape/z5/blob/chunk-requests/matthews_test.py) and I think this is a good test. @MatthewBM are you building z5 yourself or are you using the version from conda-forge? I...

Good point. I think this is something to consider for the next minor release.

> I'm trying to figure out what should be happening, so I'm trying to understand what handles do. I'm not sure what the purpose of handles are. It would be...

@vharron I have fixed the build issues with GCS now and added some explanation on the handles, see https://github.com/constantinpape/z5/blob/master/include/z5/handle.hxx#L14.

This would be great to have!