Re: surface cdata property restricted to double or uint8

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Aug-2010, Shai Ayal wrote:

| Maybe I'm misunderstanding the original code, but doesn't it also
| convert the whole array to double? In this case we loose no
| performance by converting beforehand when compared to the original
| code.

Yes, but since the conversion happens for only one element at a time,
it requires less memory.  Converting the whole array at once requires
twice the storage of a single precision array for the temporary
variable.  The current code only requires 8 additional bytes.

jwe