Flat multi-dim arrays.

[Oskar Linde]

Mikola Lysenko wrote:

> 
> 5.  How do slices work?
> 
> You can't just slice a random chunk from the middle of an array in place
> like a regular array, since the layout will be incorrect.  

Yes you can. This is exactly what strides are for. 

For each dimension, you keep a stride as well as a length. Walking up the
dimension moves a stride of units of memory. This even allows things like
transposing a large matrix without moving a single byte. 

/Oskar