From 9e681590cb3331bbbad358125164cfb2b13715ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Jordens <rj@m-labs.hk>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 19:08:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] pyon: ship ndarray data as bytes

this is about 3 times faster and since the encapsulating nparray() already
breaks json-compatibility, using a unicode string for json compatibility
is not necessary
---
 artiq/protocols/pyon.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/artiq/protocols/pyon.py b/artiq/protocols/pyon.py
index 394965434..b72a7f9b3 100644
--- a/artiq/protocols/pyon.py
+++ b/artiq/protocols/pyon.py
@@ -141,14 +141,14 @@ class _Encoder:
         r = "nparray("
         r += self.encode(x.shape) + ", "
         r += self.encode(x.dtype.str) + ", "
-        r += self.encode(base64.b64encode(x).decode())
+        r += self.encode(base64.b64encode(x.data))
         r += ")"
         return r
 
     def encode_npscalar(self, x):
         r = "npscalar("
         r += self.encode(x.dtype.str) + ", "
-        r += self.encode(base64.b64encode(x).decode())
+        r += self.encode(base64.b64encode(x.data))
         r += ")"
         return r