[Numpy-discussion] Array pooling

[Simon Burton]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:51:01 -0300 (ART)
Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:


> Hi! I'm writting a real time sound synthesis framework where processing units are interconnected via numpy arrays. These buffers are all the same size and type, so it would be easy and convenient pooling them in order to avoid excesive creation/destruction of arrays (consider that thousands of them are acquired and released per second, but just a few dozens used at the same time). But first I would like to know if numpy implements some pooling mechanism by itself. 

I don't think so.

> Could you give me some insight on this? Also, is it possible to obtain an uninitialized array?

numpy.empty

> I mean, sometimes I don't feel like wasting valuable cpu clocks filling arrays with zeros, ones or whatever.
> Thank you in advance.
> Regards,
> Carlos

Sounds like fun.

Simon.

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