On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) <cka...@arl.army.mil> wrote: >> >I haven't tried either of the methods I mentioned so far >> (because I'm >> >lazy, sorry:), but what I have tried is I created NSData >> from the large >> >object by using NSKeyedArchiver. It has taken forever, so >> that I had to >> >force-quit the process. That's why I am asking if the same thing is >> >going to happen with piples and DO? Or maybe I'm doing >> something wrong? >> >> If your data has many double values and use encodeDouble:forKey: >> use encodeBytes:length:forKey: instead. encodeDouble:forKey: >> is very very slow. In my case, with encodeDouble:forKey: it >> takes 4 hour and 30 minutes, but with >> encodeBytes:length:forKey: it takes only 21 seconds. >> I never tested for float values but maybe the same. > > That may not be the safest way to do things; if you encode on a little > endian machine and decode on a big endian one, the bytes that make up > the double may be swapped. You might be able to do this if you first > encode a constant that has a known pattern as a double, and then encode > all your doubles afterwards. That way, as you are decoding, you can use > some special purpose swap logic to get the bytes in the right order on > your machine by seeing how the known pattern was mangled when it was > archived.
It is perfectly safe as long as you actually do it properly. Doing it properly does of course involve swapping the numbers as you put them in and get them out of the archive. Encoding a known pattern is a horrible idea, don't do this. Use NSSwapHostDoubleToBig and NSwapBigDoubleToHost in NSByteOrder.h to produce a consistent ordering and format. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
