Coming from C++, I’m used to writing something like class workspace { public: int* frontBuffer; int* backBuffer; workspace() { ... allocate front and back buffers here ...} void swap_buffers() { int* tempPtr = frontBuffer; frontBuffer = backBuffer; backBuffer = te…

[image] mdtisdall: I admit I’m a little suspicious of allocating a new Workspace at each swap when I expect to do millions of these as part of a big computation, but I’m open to the idea that this is basically irrelevant You’d be correct - immutable structs basically don’t allocate and can li…

Julian way of expressing a buffer swap

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mdtisdall August 7, 2021, 6:09am 10

Obviously this appeals to my C++ brain, but just wanted to confirm it’s not an anti-pattern for Julia code.

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Julian way of expressing a buffer swap

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