Yeah, like the head block, it's a copying operation. But that's
"relatively cheap".
I'm not quite sure about the state of this, but at GRCON '14 work
was started on letting blocks define where their buffers are –
maybe, one day, as a side effect, we can actually use the same
buffers for in- and output and get rid of the copying.
On 12.05.2016 18:07, Richard Bell
wrote:
If we wanted that behavior, could we do something
similar to what gating blocks do (like the power squelch), where
we pass X number of items through and after that only consume
items without ever producing anything. Is there an efficiency
problem with this technique?
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