Benchmark environment

* 3.6.3 (v3.6.3:2c5fed8, Oct  3 2017, 17:26:49) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)]
* Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
* Intel64 Family 6 Model 69 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
* 16GB installed RAM

Notations used in the results

* full =  asammdf MDF object created with memory=full (everything loaded into RAM)
* low =  asammdf MDF object created with memory=low (raw channel data not loaded into RAM, but metadata loaded to RAM)
* minimum =  asammdf MDF object created with memory=full (lowest possible RAM usage)
* compress = mdfreader mdf object created with compression=blosc
* noDataLoading = mdfreader mdf object read with noDataLoading=True

Files used for benchmark:

* mdf version 3.10
    * 167 MB file size
    * 183 groups
    * 36424 channels
* mdf version 4.00
    * 183 MB file size
    * 183 groups
    * 36424 channels



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Open file                                          Time [ms] RAM [MB]
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asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv3                            1792      272
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv3                             1650      119
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv3                          556       49
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv3                                   3526      394
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv3                          5373       96
mdfreader 2.7.8 noDataLoading mdfv3                     1427      108
asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv4                            2181      259
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv4                             2045       94
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv4                         1396       49
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv4                                   8189      399
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv4                         10217      100
mdfreader 2.7.8 noDataLoading mdfv4                     5227      110
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Save file                                          Time [ms] RAM [MB]
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asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv3                            1150      278
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv3                             1303      125
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv3                         3978       54
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv3                                   9154      414
mdfreader 2.7.8 noDataLoading mdfv3                    10710      450
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv3                          8789      388
asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv4                            1262      262
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv4                             1382      103
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv4                         4015       58
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv4                                   5285      418
mdfreader 2.7.8 noDataLoading mdfv4                     8016      437
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv4                          5027      382
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Get all channels (36424 calls)                     Time [ms] RAM [MB]
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asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv3                            2052      280
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv3                            21601      131
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv3                        24989       63
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv3                                    125      394
mdfreader 2.7.8 nodata mdfv3                           33777      132
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv3                           676       96
asammdf 4.0.0.dev full mdfv4                            2177      263
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low mdfv4                            25377      103
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum mdfv4                        29231       58
mdfreader 2.7.8 mdfv4                                    116      399
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress mdfv4                           666      105
mdfreader 2.7.8 nodata mdfv4                           42202      125
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Convert file                                       Time [ms] RAM [MB]
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asammdf 4.0.0.dev full v3 to v4                         6679      552
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low v3 to v4                          6897      221
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum v3 to v4                     11120       87
asammdf 4.0.0.dev full v4 to v3                         6004      511
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low v4 to v3                          6294      161
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum v4 to v3                     12459       79
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Merge 3 files                                      Time [ms] RAM [MB]
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asammdf 4.0.0.dev full v3                              20648     1411
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low v3                               20279      391
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum v3                           30807      119
mdfreader 2.7.8 v3                                     27054     1274
mdfreader 2.7.8 compress v3                            32342     1288
mdfreader 2.7.8 nodata v3                              26471     1343
asammdf 4.0.0.dev full v4                              21532     1335
asammdf 4.0.0.dev low v4                               21272      280
asammdf 4.0.0.dev minimum v4                           45546      111
mdfreader 2.7.8 v4                                     40785     1260
mdfreader 2.7.8 nodata v4                              40467     1284
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