Re: collections of primitive types

[Adam Fedor]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 11:26 AM, Travis Griggs wrote:

> It looks like I'll have to do my own high res time object, hopefully 
> these tutorials will elucidate how I build up a reusable library of 
> such objects, and what the common conventions are for doing so. So, 
> I'm on to my next question...
>
> NSArray looks fine for storing objects. But quite often I want an 
> array of floats or ints. What's the general approach? Do I box up the 
> primitive numbers in objects and use NSArray? Is there a FloatArray or 
> IntArray thing? Write my own?

FYI, I have a MathArray library that allows you to store numbers 
compactly (basically in an NSData object) and also do mathematical and 
matrix manipulations on them. I need to make a new release of it 
though...