The question is how are people obtaining h5py. Most people either obtain h5py
from pip or conda.
PyPI (via pip)
https://pypi.org/project/hdf5plugin/
Conda-Forge (conda)
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/hdf5plugin
The source repository for those packages is maintained by the synchrotron
commu
There are a few applications now that have implemented thread parallel
compression and decompression:
https://github.com/imaris/ImarisWriter
https://www.blosc.org/posts/blosc2-pytables-perf/
One trick is to use
[`H5Dread_chunk`](https://docs.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/v1_14/group___h5_d.html#title30)
