BaseT

inner type. This will mostly be a system numeric type or a complex floating point type.

The most significant property of ILArray's is the ability to create, hold and handle references of other ILArray's. Those references act like a solid array to the outside world but consume only a very little memory itself. Therefore they directly use the elements of the original array for computations and only store access rules in a very economical yet performant way. Write access to any arrays involved is controlled by internal reference counting. The references are detached accordingly. That behavior may also get flexible adjusted by the user of the library due to the ILDetachingBehavior property.

The inner type of the elements (specified through the generic parameter BaseT) does not change the general behavior of the ILArray<>. However, if it comes to mathematical operations there is a limited number of inner types common mathematical functions and operators are defined for. All basic operations (+,-,*,/,<,>,<=,etc.) are defined for all ILArray's having the inner type BaseT of a numeric type (system defined like 'double','int' - or complex, fcomplex). Some functions are defined for even less types. This is the case mostly for all linear algebraic functions explicilty involving matrices or vectors (LAPACK) and for trigonometric functions and those, wich explicitly return floating point values (cos, atan etc.). Therefore you may create ILArrays of arbitrary types, but might not be able to use them afterwards in other then some basic operations defined for all ILArrays - regardless of the inner type - like concatenation, (de)serialization and string exports.