Could you file a bug report? bugs.swift.org?
Michael
> On May 9, 2017, at 12:59 AM, Howard Lovatt via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> My mistake. If I create a new array I get the problem. EG:
>
> import Foundation
>
> func elapsed(s: DispatchTime, e: DispatchTime) -> Double {
> return Double(e.uptimeNanoseconds - s.uptimeNanoseconds) / 1_000_000_000
> }
>
> let s = 250_000_000
> var a = [UInt8]()
> a.reserveCapacity(s)
>
> let sa = DispatchTime.now()
> for i in 1 ... s {
> a.append(0)
> }
> let ea = DispatchTime.now()
> print("Append time: \(elapsed(s: sa, e: ea)) s")
>
> let st = DispatchTime.now()
> a = Array(a[0 ..< (s >> 1)])
> let et = DispatchTime.now()
> print("Trim time: \(elapsed(s: st, e: et)) s")
> print("a count: \(a.count), capacity: \(a.capacity)")
>
>
> Prints:
>
> Append time: 2.65726525 s
> Trim time: 36.954417356 s
> a count: 125000000, capacity: 125001696
>
> -- Howard.
>
> On 9 May 2017 at 17:53, Howard Lovatt <howard.lov...@gmail.com
> <mailto:howard.lov...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I find trimming relative to appending OK on my 6 year old MacBook Pro. EG:
>
> import Foundation
>
> func elapsed(s: DispatchTime, e: DispatchTime) -> Double {
> return Double(e.uptimeNanoseconds - s.uptimeNanoseconds) / 1_000_000_000
> }
>
> let s = 250_000_000
> var a = [UInt8]()
> a.reserveCapacity(s)
>
> let sa = DispatchTime.now()
> for i in 1 ... s {
> a.append(0)
> }
> let ea = DispatchTime.now()
> print("Append time: \(elapsed(s: sa, e: ea)) s")
>
> let st = DispatchTime.now()
> let ha = a[0 ..< (s >> 1)]
> let et = DispatchTime.now()
> print("Trim time: \(elapsed(s: st, e: et)) s")
>
> print("ha count: \(ha.count), capacity: \(ha.capacity)")
>
>
> Prints:
>
> Append time: 2.612397389 s
> Trim time: 0.000444132 s
> ha count: 125000000, capacity: 125000000
>
> -- Howard.
>
> On 9 May 2017 at 12:56, Kelvin Ma via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org
> <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote:
> Depending on what you’re trying to do with the data, you might be better off
> using an UnsafeBufferPointer and allocating and reallocating that, C-style.
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Philippe Hausler via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote:
> I wonder if Data might be a better tool for the job here since it is it’s own
> slice type and would avoid copying large amounts of data into temporary
> buffers.
>
> > On May 8, 2017, at 16:47, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users@swift.org
> > <mailto:swift-users@swift.org>> wrote:
> >
> > I have this C library that interacts with some hardware over the network
> > that produces a ton of data. It tells me up front the maximum size the data
> > might be so I can allocate a buffer for it, then does a bunch of network
> > requests downloading that data into the buffer, then tells me when it's
> > done and what the final, smaller size is.
> >
> > Thanks to previous discussions on the list, I settled on using a [UInt8] as
> > the buffer, because it let me avoid various .withUnsafePointer{} calls (I
> > need the unsafe buffer pointer to live outside the scope of the closures).
> > Unfortunately, When I go to shrink the buffer to its final size with:
> >
> > self.dataBuffer = Array(self.dataBuffer![0 ..< finalBufferSize])
> >
> > This ends up taking over 2 minutes to complete (on an iPad Pro).
> > finalBufferSize is very large, 240 MB, but I think it's doing a very naive
> > copy.
> >
> > I've since worked around this problem, but is there any way to improve on
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Rick Mann
> > rm...@latencyzero.com <mailto:rm...@latencyzero.com>
> >
> >
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