Re: typed arrays

[Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino@...>]

You could also do this with the C api though.



On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Tom <tmbdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was wondering whether there was any standard on typed arrays in the works,
>> similar to what JavaScript offers.
>>
>> Of course, there are several libraries that provide this functionality, but
>> the main use of typed arrays that I have isn't so much for
>> computing/scripting with them (they are nice for that to be sure), but for
>> interoperability between libraries with different array types: if each
>> library knows how to convert to/from a standard typed array,
>> interoperability becomes much easier.
>>
>> The ideal library might go a bit beyond the JS facility and allow both owned
>> storage and pointing to already allocated storage in an existing structure
>> (the user of the library would have to make sure that that's safe), and
>> would provide array descriptors allowing for non-standard strides.  But even
>> a simple, standard 1D dense vector would greatly improve interoperability.
>>
>> T
>
> LuaJIT offers this through its FFI types. Perhaps you should check that out.
>
> /s/ Adam
>