Re: passing Indeterminate and Infinity to C via MathLink
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- Subject: [mg121582] Re: passing Indeterminate and Infinity to C via MathLink
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:32:35 -0400 (EDT)
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On 20/09/2011 11:11, Roman wrote: > Dear John, > thanks a lot for your detailed explanations. I believe that your > suggestion of using "magic" floats for representing Indeterminate and > Infinity is the most viable possibility; in this way I can send packed > arrays to C without a hitch. > The inefficiencies that you mention in the MathLink protocol, even > using packed arrays, are quite noticeable though. Much experimentation > and comparison to the use of Compile[] is required to find the fastest > way of getting things done. > Best regards, > Roman > One alternative to designating a magic float (which then has to be searched for in the external program, and which could be generated by an unfortunate calculation) is to replace the NaN values with 0.0, and also send a small (packed integer) index array locating the NaN's. If there are no Nan's, the list would be empty. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk