From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2007-01-16T23:16:14+09:00
Subject: Re: efficient access to a large int32 array

Martin DeMello wrote:
> I have a file that is a dump of a large array of 32-bit unsigned ints
> (bitvectors actually). All I need is to load this into memory and have
> fast, efficient access to the array members, and a few bitmasking
> operations - the array will never be written to, and ideally should
> not need to be bounds-checked. Should I be looking at something like
> mmap or narray to do this, or would I be better served by a custom C
> extension?

  I would write my own extension and use mmap (if you're under linux) to
save trouble and memory. That's just a question of a few hours, and
you'll get high performance.

  Cheers,

	Vince, in a posting mood today...


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