I've been enjoying the NSArray/NSMutableArray classes as I work with
various user interface features for a program I'm working on that
interacts with a legacy C++ library.
I've recently begun considering how to efficiently display the
contents of a binary data stream. Currently I'm appending to an
NSMutableArray of NSNumber objects, which is great for allowing me to
bind to some UI elements in close to real time and has provided a
simple and functional mechanism for text numerical display.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to access a raw binary buffer of data so
I could for example bind it to something like an OpenGL vector buffer
for display. However, unlike an STL vector, I don't think the
NS[Mutable]Array provides any guarantees of memory organization, nor
any way to 'unbox' the NSNumber to deal with the internal values.
For example, in the STL, I could make use of the fact that the vector
template guarantees the storage to be in contiguous memory and
accessible as raw double values through the address of the first
element of the vector. However, I don't think this is possible via
NSMutableArray and NSNumbers.
Is my only option to periodically sync a buffer of binary double
values by copying from the NSMutableArray on some periodic basis?
Thanks,
-Brent
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