Christian Heimes wrote: > Michael Foord wrote: > >> Hey - well if someone uses it I might actually maintain it... :-) >> >> For passing lots of data in and out it will probably be highly >> inefficient, but let me know about your experiences with it. >> >> In the long run Resolver aims to solve exactly this problem though, as >> we have customers who also want to use Numpy. >> > > We might be able to resolve the problem and make it more efficient. I'm > not sure if it will actually work and my C+/.NET knowledge is too > limited to implement it on my own. > > Python 2.x has something called buffer() > (http://docs.python.org/api/abstract-buffer.html). It's designed for > quick memory access of Python objects. IIRC numpy is supporting the > buffer protocol, too. It *might* be possible to use the buffer protocol > to exchange data between CPython and IronPython by using unsafe code. > PythonDotNet uses unsafe code and direct access to memory all the time > to make it efficient. > > I don't think it's possible to write unsafe and unmanaged code with > IronPython but with C# one could write some nice and hacky pointer > operations. >
This is very interesting and could be very useful - thanks. Whichever approach we take we will need to investigate this. Thanks Michael http://www.manning.com/foord > Christian > > > _________________________________________________ Python.NET mailing list - PythonDotNet@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythondotnet
