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To be confident that ecCodes behaves as GRIB-API , (as far as the GRIB decoding and encoding is concerned, we are performing ) a set of regression tests are being performed. At the moment all the standard tests are passing without problems. One important aspect of the library is performance and we are continuously checking that ecCodes performs at least as well as GRIB-API. In the latest version the difference in performance is not significant. ecCodes is performing as well as GRIB-API and in some tests it is slightly better.
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