Type conversion for PyObjectList to kotlin FloatArray

Is there faster/efficient way for converting list of PyObjects to FloatArray ? Currently I am using following method.

 private fun convertPyDataToFloat(list: List<PyObject>?): FloatArray {
        val size = list?.size ?: 0
        return FloatArray(size){ i->list!![i].toFloat()}
    }

However for an array of 512 obj it is taking upto 1000-2000ms

[mhsmith]

Since Chaquopy version 8.0.0, NumPy arrays and Java arrays of the same type can now be converted directly, which gives much better performance.

[mhsmith]

On the Python side, I think you can convert the FFT result to bytes using tobytes. Then use toJava to convert that to a ByteArray.