2007/11/20, Georg Holzmann <grh@mur.at>:
Hallo!

> Really?  I worked pretty hard to avoid copies when they were not
> necessary.  For the ARGOUT typemaps, I allocate an array of the
> requested size and then pass its data buffer to your function.  If

Yes but this means that you again allocate an array of the same size.


Well, this is logical as you want a new argument in output.
 

E.g. in my algorithm I can have a very big internal matrix in C++ (say
700 MB - in fortran style). Now I want to have this matrix in numpy to
plot some parts of it, get some data out of it ... whatever - if I again
allocate an array of the same size, I am out of memory.
Therefore I simply used the PyArray_FromDimsAndData() function to
allocate the array.


This is why you use INPLACE typemaps that will NOT copy your data.
 

> that is not what you want, then you should probably be using the
> INPLACE typemap.

Yeah, but this results in the same as above ...


Are you sure ? Because the original object is not modified, so it is still the same data.

If what you want is to provide a view  from your C++ matrix, this is different. You must either :
- propose the array interface
- use a Python object inside your C++ matrix (this is to be done, I've a basic example in my blog)

Matthieu
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