Memory-aware Array: Array Subclass in GPUData class

In this lesson, we will learn how to subclass ndarray to use it in the GPUData class.

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As explained in the Subclassing ndarray documentation, subclassing ndarray is complicated by the fact that new instances of ndarray classes can come about in three different ways:

  • Explicit constructor call
  • View casting
  • New from template

However, our case is simpler because we’re only interested in the view casting. We thus only need to define the __new__ method that will be called at each instance creation. As such, the GPUData class will be equipped with two properties:

  • extents: This represents the full extent of the view relatively to the base array. It is stored as a byte offset and a byte size.
  • pending_data: This represents the contiguous dirty area as (byte offset, byte size) relatively to the extents property.