Mir Slice Column or Row Major

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 28 May 2020 at 00:51:50 UTC, 9il wrote:
> snip
> Actually it is a question of notation. For example, mir-lapack 
> uses ndslice as column-major Fortran arrays. This may cause 
> some headaches because the data needs to be transposed in mind. 
> We can think about ndslice as about column-major nd-arrays with 
> the reversed order of indexing.
>
> The current template looks like
>
> Slice(Iterator, size_t N = 1, SliceKind kind = 1)
>
> If we add a special column-major notation, then it will look 
> like
>
> Slice(Iterator, size_t N = 1, SliceKind kind = Contiguous, 
> PayloadOrder = RowMajor)
>
> A PR that adds this feature will be accepted.

Oh, that is news to me. I was under the impression that such a PR 
would not be accepted. The prototype you have is exactly what I 
had been thinking (that’s what eigen does).

Unfortunately, I don’t think I have the time to ensure everything 
works properly with column major. I think my time right now is 
better spent on other mir stuff, but it’s good to know that the 
only obstacle is someone putting the work in.