Re: typed arrays

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Daniel Aquino
<mr.danielaquino@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could also do this with the C api though.
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> 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
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>> LuaJIT offers this through its FFI types. Perhaps you should check that out.
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>> /s/ Adam
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Indeed, you could write a few C functions to deal with a userdata or
lightuserdata object wrapping around a C or C++ vector.

/s/ Adam