Re: [boost] [gil io_new review] Reading images from in-memory sources

Subject: Re: [boost] [gil io_new review] Reading images from in-memory sources
From: Kenny Riddile (kfriddile_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-06 11:21:13

On 12/6/2010 10:10 AM, Christian Henning wrote:
> Hi Kenny,
>
>>
>> I accomplish this using Boost.IOStreams...something like this works for me:
>>
>> using namespace boost::iostreams;
>> stream<  array_source>  bufferStream( buffer, size );
>> read_image( bufferStream, dest, jpeg_tag() );
>
>
> Cool this is what I was looking for. No extra copying involved?
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
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 From the IOStreams documentation on array_source:

"Model of Source providing read-only access to a sequence of characters 
in memory."

doesn't sound like any copying to me :)