On Jul 8, 2013, at 18:04 , Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 7, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Frederick Bartram <bartr...@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried using NSData to store C-arrays?
>
> Or alternatively use NSPointerValue to wrap a pointer to a malloc’ed C array
> as an object.
It seems to me that an array of float is worth a dedicated object, for example
MPWRealArray, SMUGRealVector or the arrays in FScript:
@interface MPWRealArray : MPWObject
{
NSUInteger capacity;
NSUInteger count;
float *floatStart;
}
This is really easy to create yourself, the key insight is that you don't have
to use the pre-defined objects that Apple gives us, especially when performance
is a concern you are frequently better of rolling your own. I benchmarked
this a little while ago, and creation a 10000 element real array was 1000 (one
thousand) times faster than creating a 10000 element NSArray of (float)
NSNumbers. It also uses 5-10 times less memory, and if needed you can define
homogenous operations on the array, using tight C loops or the Accelerate
framework. For example, summing such an array can be done as follows:
-(float)vec_reduce_sum
{
float theSum=0;
vDSP_sve ( floatStart, 1, &theSum, count );
return theSum;
}
That's roughly 200 times faster than summing an NSArray of NSNumber.
Cheers,
Marcel
https://github.com/mpw/MPWFoundation
https://bitbucket.org/liscio/smugmath/
http://www.fscript.org
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