Class: UnboxedFloatArray

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • queries
  • testing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Collection
      |
      +--SequenceableCollection
         |
         +--ArrayedCollection
            |
            +--UninterpretedBytes
               |
               +--AbstractNumberVector
                  |
                  +--UnboxedFloatArray
                     |
                     +--DoubleArray
                     |
                     +--FloatArray
                     |
                     +--HalfFloatArray

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Collections-Arrayed

Version:

rev: 1.1 date: 2019/03/02 23:24:20

user: cg

file: UnboxedFloatArray.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

An abstract superclass for all unboxed float classes.
In contrast to normal arrays (which store pointers to their elements),
unboxedFloatArrays store the values in a dense & compact way. 
Since the representation fits corresponding underlying C-language representations,
these are also useful to pass bulk data to c primitive code.

Related information:

    ByteArray
    WordArray
    BooleanArray
    FloatArray
    DoubleArray
    Array
    IntegerArray
    LongIntegerArray
    SignedLongIntegerArray

Class protocol:

 isAbstract

Return if this class is an abstract class.
True is returned for UnboxedFloatArray here; false for subclasses.
Abstract subclasses must redefine this again.

Instance protocol:

 defaultElement

 isValidElement: anObject

return true, if I can hold this kind of object

 isFloatArray

return true if the receiver has float elements.
These are Float-, Double and HalfFloat arrays