NAME

DiaColloDB::PDL::MM - DiaColloDB utilities: (temporary) mmaped PDLs

SYNOPSIS

 ##========================================================================
 ## PRELIMINARIES
 
 use DiaColloDB::PDL::MM;
 
 ##========================================================================
 ## Constructors etc.
 
 $mmpdl = CLASS->new($file?, $type?, @dims, \%opts?);
 $mmpdl = CLASS->mmtemp($file?, $type?, @dims, \%opts?);
 $bool = CLASS->unlink(@basenames);
 undef = $obj->DESTROY();
 
 ##========================================================================
 ## Accessors
 
 $file = $mmdpl->file();
 $istmp = $mmdpl->temp();
 $pdl = $mmpdl->_pdl();
 

DESCRIPTION

DiaColloDB::PDL::MM provides a simple object-oriented wrapper for (temporary) PDLs using mmap() via PDL::IO::FastRaw. This is mostly useful to ensure that the memory used by large intermediate piddles is freed when the objects are destroyed, since mmap() bypasses perl's internal memory management.

Globals & Constants

Variable: @ISA

DiaColloDB::PDL::MM inherits from PDL.

Variable: %MMTMP

Psuedo-set of all tempfiles created, used by END block.

Variable: $LOG_DEFAULT

Default log-level for debugging (default=undef: off).

Constructors etc.

new

 $mmpdl = CLASS->new($file?, $type?, @dims, \%opts?);
 $mmpdl = $pdl->mmzeroes($file?, $type?, \%opts?);

Creates and returns a new mmap()ed PDL and returns the result as a blessed HASH-ref conforming to PDL inheritance conventions. %opts, %$mmpdl:

 (
  file => $template,   ##-- file basename or File::Temp template; default='pdlXXXX'
  suffix => $suffix,   ##-- File::Temp::tempfile() suffix (default='.pdl')
  log  => $level,      ##-- logging verbosity (default=$LOG_DEFAULT)
  temp => $bool,       ##-- delete on END (default: $file =~ /X{4}/)
  PDL  => $pdl,        ##-- guts: real underlying mmap()ed piddle (must be key 'PDL' for PDL inheritance to work)
 )

mmtemp

 $mmpdl = CLASS->mmtemp($file?, $type?, @dims, \%opts?);

like new(), but always sets $opts->{temp}=1.

unlink

 $bool = CLASS->unlink(@basenames);
 $bool = $mmpdl->unlink();

Unlinks file(s) generated by mmzeroes($basename). $basename defaults to $mmpdl->{file} if called as an object method.

DESTROY

 undef = $obj->DESTROY()

Destructor implicitly calls unlink(); must also handle "pure" piddles created e.g. by $mmpdl->xvals().

Accessors

file

 $file = $mmdpl->file();

Returns mmap()ed filename.

temp

 $istmp = $mmdpl->temp();

Returns true iff $mmpdl is marked as a temporary.

_pdl

 $pdl = $mmpdl->_pdl();

Returns "real" underlying PDL.

AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish <moocow@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 by Bryan Jurish

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

SEE ALSO

PDL(3pm), PDL::IO::FastRaw(3pm), DiaColloDB(3pm), perl(1), ...