MatchingBackend.to_sharedarr

abstract MatchingBackend.to_sharedarr(arr, shared_memory_handler=None)

Converts an array to an object shared in memory. The output of this function will only be passed to from_sharedarr(), hence the return values can be modified in particular backends to match the expected input data.

Parameters:

arrBackendArray

Numpy array to convert.

shared_memory_handlertype, optional

The type of shared memory handler. Default is None.

Returns:

Tuple[shared_memory.SharedMemory, tuple of ints, dtype]

The shared memory object containing the numpy array, its shape and dtype.