Currently its about 0 to 170, but may expand in future, so a byte array could
be used as well at least at present. I will run a test on both byte and word
and integer to see. If its only a second or two its fine. And there are no
pointers, otherwise I wouldn’t even consider it.
I thought there must be some simple way to do it with Filestream, only I
haven’t done it with binary data like this (I didn’t plan for needing this when
I designed it)
I can live with the 40-50 seconds delay, but on PCs with a slow processor it
might create timing problems if it is much longer as it has to finish before
other stuff kicks off.
I am also looking at the algorithm that takes that long, there might be
something iffy in there. There is a loop within the loop doing the
calculations and that can be a minefield.
Thanks to Russell at al for all the suggestions.
From: Ross Levis
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 10:14 PM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] Saving aray
Shame it’s not 0 to 255. You could then use an array of byte and write them as
bytes to a binary file. It would only be 1.5MB in size so very small and I
guess take less than a second to load and save.
If you do really need 257 possible values (0-256) then an array of Word is 2
bytes per value and it would be 3MB in size. Still a very small file.
Writing and reading the array may be possible by dumping the RAM direct to file
in bulk and loading it back. There will be some way of doing that I believe
and it should very fast.
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, 7 July 2014 8:35 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Saving aray
I have a program that builds a very large array (over 1,500,000) of integers,
and the calculation to fill the array takes quite a while – around 40-50 secs.
If there is a quick way to do it, I would save the array to disk if it was
faster than recalculating it the next time.
I am guessing that writing the elements to strings and using CSV etc would be
quite slow, as it involves quite a lot of processing. I will run a test to
see.
Is there any really fast way to save such an array to disk? The numbers range
between 0 and 256 if that helps.
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