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There are a couple of different ways to call a library from the .NET framework without impacting performance unacceptably. Using P/Invoke the library can be called directly from C# (in our case). Due to the cost of marshaling the data this is not a good option for many short computations, but for significant operations, the P/Invoke cost is negligible. We also have the option to call a C++/cli routine from C#, pinning all pointers to data allocated in the managed space, and then call the Intel library. In terms of performance, pinning pointers in C++/cli is generally better, but it's also more complex to implement the pointers to both managed and unmanaged heaps. CenterSpace uses both techniques.
Happy Computing,
-Paul
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