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On 10/5/2011 7:17 AM, bob wrote:
> The issue is that it's too slow.
>
> What I'm hoping for is something like this:
>
> 			byte[] b = new byte[numfloats*4];
> 			dis.read(b, 0, numfloats*4);
> 			float[] f = (float[]) b;
> 			return f;
>
> I don't know why, but it won't let me do the cast.  Any ideas?


<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/FloatBuffer.html#get%28float[],%20int,%20int%29>

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/ByteBuffer.html#asFloatBuffer%28%29>