Speed up baseline methods.

[Malte Marquarding]

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[Malte Marquarding]

Hi Wata,

I read in your weekly report that you are working on this again. I thought we have two modes. The one which gives data back to python and the 'batch' mode. Why do you need to speed up the former? The reason it is slow is because it will make copies from c++ to python. Using addresses is really not recommended. If you really need to pass by reference you should use CountedPtr so they are managed.

It would be helpful if you regularly commit your changes (to a branch) so we can work on the ideas.

Cheers, Malte.

[Malte Marquarding]

The other possibility is to print/log the info in c++ and not returning any info to python at all. In that case however, it will depend on a threaded logger to get log messages as they are generated.