Re: collections of primitive types

[Travis Griggs]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Travis Griggs wrote:
>
>  > It looks like I'll have to do my own high res time object, hopefully
>  > these tutorials will elucidate how I build up a reusable library of
>  > such objects, and what the common conventions are for doing so. So,
>  > I'm on to my next question...
>  >
>  > NSArray looks fine for storing objects. But quite often I want an
>  > array of floats or ints. What's the general approach? Do I box up the
>  > primitive numbers in objects and use NSArray? Is there a FloatArray or
>  > IntArray thing? Write my own?
>  >
>
> FYI, I have a MathArray library that allows you to store numbers
> compactly (basically in an NSData object) and also do mathematical and
> matrix manipulations on them. I need to make a new release of it
> though...

This sounds very cool. I would be very much interested in such a beast.

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Travis Griggs
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