Re: typed arrays

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

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