Abstract: A system, comprising a first module receiving data in a first format and a library module building a structure in a buffer containing a plurality of data elements in the first format and creating entries corresponding to each of the plurality of data elements, each entry including a first pointer to the corresponding data element in the structure, wherein, when the first module requests a first one of the plurality of data elements, the library module reformats the first one of the data elements into a second format, stores the reformatted first one of the data elements and creates a second pointer from the corresponding entry to the reformatted first one of the data elements, the first module retrieving the reformatted first one of the data elements using the second pointer from the corresponding entry.