v0.4.0

Added

• BaseTrimmer.backend property to get the backend used by a trimmer object.
• Zero-copy slicing for AlignmentSequences and AlignmentResidues objects.
• noduplicateseqs method for AutomaticTrimmer objects.
• OverlapTrimmer class to perform overlap trimming with SSE-accelerated implementation.
• AutomaticTrimmer.METHODS attribute to expose all supported automatic trimming methods.
• __repr__ implementation to all trimmer classes.

Fixed

• Missing deallocation code for standalone AlignmentResidues objects.
• Alignment.load not working properly in PyPy environments.
• Alignment constructor sometimes crashing when not given any sequence.

Changed

• Use aligned memory for some temporary buffers used in SIMD code.
• Enable loop unrolling when supported by the compiler.
• Skip letter validation when creating an Alignment object with sequences from an AlignmentSequences object.

Removed

• consistency_threshold and consistency_window arguments of ManualTrimmer.