Best array population & access optimization

[Mark Brownell]

Hi,

I have my Blowfish hard coded as a button mouseUp handler completed. I'm now trying to optimize the array processing procedures for populating the P-box and S-boxes for the block-cypher. My question is "What is the fastest process for populating the boxes with large numbered numerical values."

example: -785314906, - 805139163, -803545161, -1193168915, ... lots of them

Numbers like this need to be populated into an array, accessed, and changed to new values as part of several loop operations. I'm searching for the fastest way of doing this.

Does anyone have any testing examples regarding arrays and array-management in a stack that uses numbers? How about suggestions for array optimization techniques?

Thanks,

Mark