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Improve ripser bindings performance #501
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I'm sure it's right but it's too much for my brain, what does this line do?
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It's related on
pybind11
underlying layer to manage objects.numpy
inpybind11
is a special type, usingpybind11
classes to represent it. Withrequest().ptr
I ask to have access to the underlying data inside theobject
.It's not easy to see this in the
pybind11
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I see. And is
(float*)
about passing a pointer instead of an object?There was a problem hiding this comment.
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Well that's something we unfortunately inherit from
ripser.py
, but yeah you're rightThere was a problem hiding this comment.
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I thought that this was the core of your intervention in this PR! Could you explain where exactly you change the behaviour so that pointers are passed and memory is saved? Sorry, I know these are basic questions...
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Also what's the difference between the previous
&
syntax and the new(float*)
one?There was a problem hiding this comment.
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The
&
syntax is passing by reference, it's a c++ syntax, one of it's useful uses is to prevent the copy of an object.The
float*
syntax is to have a pointer to the memory of the data, it's more a C syntax and in C++ we try to move away from it.There was a problem hiding this comment.
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For the first question:
I prevent copying the memory from Python to C++ with the
&
syntax (It's a bit more complicated than that, but to have the big picture).I then need to have an access to the raw pointer of the data
float*
because it's a requirement from the C++ ripser inripser.py
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So I guess my next question is why the
&
was not sufficient, if it already prevented copies which was the purpose of this PR?