ENH: set and expose global dicom compresslevel var #669
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Python's tarfile is using a compression level of 9 by default (back to and including python 3.5): https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.open
We see cases where this leads to a large waste of cpu cycles with minimal gain as opposed to compress level 5 or even 1.
Setting a global
compresslevel
variable makes it easy to override from our heuristics, keeping the default with minimal code impact.