Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE : libsndfile-ocaml alpha

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Vu Ngoc San wrote:

> I was thinking of using libsndfile in combination with the ocaml-gsl 
> (gnu scientific library), and the latter uses bigarray, afaik.

Now that is a useful data point.

However, I do notice that the Gsl_vector module has functions:

    val of_array : float array -> vector
    val to_array : vector -> float array

I also notice that the Gsl_vector functions are all of type:

   (float, Bigarray.float64_elt, Bigarray.c_layout) Bigarray.Array1.t

> I am just 
> wondering whether then it would be appropriate to have bigarrays from 
> libsndfile.

I was particularly interested if there was any utility to providing
functions for accessing shorts or ints. So far noone has come up with
a need for these.

It does however seem that it may be useful access to the data via
data via a bigarray of Bigarray.float64_elt elements.

Cheers,
Erik
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