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    <p>I am developing an audio algorithm using Python and Numpy. Now I want to speed up that algorithm by implementing a part of it in C. In the past, <a href="http://bastibe.de/real-time-signal-processing-in-python.html">I have done this using cython</a>. Now I want to do the same thing using the new <a href="https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.6/">cffi</a>.</p> <p>For testing purposes, I wrote a trivial C function:</p> <pre><code>void copy(float *in, float *out, int len) { for (int i=0; i&lt;len; i++) { out[i] = in[i]; } } </code></pre> <p>Now I want to create two numpy arrays and have those be processed by this function. I figured out a way to do that:</p> <pre><code>import numpy as np from cffi import FFI ffi = FFI() ffi.cdef("void copy(float *in, float *out, int len);") C = ffi.dlopen("/path/to/copy.dll") float_in = ffi.new("float[16]") float_out = ffi.new("float[16]") arr_in = 42*np.ones(16, dtype=np.float32) float_in[0:16] = arr_in[0:16] C.copy(float_in, float_out, 16) arr_out = np.frombuffer(ffi.buffer(float_out, 16*4), dtype=np.float32) </code></pre> <p>However, I would like to improve this code: </p> <ol> <li>Is there a way to directly access the underlying float buffers of the numpy arrays without copying them?</li> <li><code>ffi.buffer</code> is very convenient for quickly converting to contents of a C array to a Numpy array. Is there an equivalent way for quickly converting a numpy array into a C array without copying the individual elements?</li> <li>For some applications, <code>float_in[0:16] = arr_in[0:16]</code> is a convenient way of accessing data. The opposite, <code>arr_out[0:16] = float_out[0:16]</code> does not work however. Why not?</li> </ol>
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