I'm pretty sure that the [tab*] objects just point into existing arrays rather than copying them. Each time [tabread] receives a float, for instance, it checks to see if the array it has been set to read from exists, and if so, updates a pointer to the indicated index of the array, and grabs the float stored there.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 6:22 PM, oscar pablo di liscia <odilis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list. > I have a question on allocating data and reading it through an external. > As I have seen so far, the externals that reads arrays, as tabread, > allocate > the data in their own memory space. As far as I can understand, this result > in a "double allocation" of the data. One in the array itself and the > other one in the > internal memory space of the instance of the tabread external. > The point is that I would like to use an array to hold in memory a > considerable > amount of data and to make it available to an arbitrary "reader" objects > without the need of allocating the data again in each one of the readers. > Is it possible to write an external that that reads data from an array "on > the fly" > without the need of allocating the data in its own memory space? > Any help will be most appreciate. > > Oscar Pablo Di Liscia > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >
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