You can use multi_array_ref which is the multiarray that does not maintain the lifetime of it&#39;s data.<br><br><a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/multi_array/doc/reference.html#multi_array_ref">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/multi_array/doc/reference.html#multi_array_ref</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:48 PM, gtsml owevwr <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gtsml.owevwr@googlemail.com">gtsml.owevwr@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<div><br></div><div>I want to use multi-array but the original data is coming from, let say, a std::vector&lt;float&gt;.</div><div>The data is quite big, do I need to copy it into a multi-array?</div><div>Or maybe I can use a &quot;view&quot; as a proxy on top of the original data and therefore avoid a costly copy?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Frank</div>
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