Matrix API support - start with formats?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 15/08/2015 2:57 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I stumbled upon https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/471374 which gives
> good detail on Intel's Math Kernel Library's data formats for sparse
> matrices.
>
> No doubt other popular linear algebra libraries have similar
> documentation. I was thinking we could start with adding these layouts
> to std, along with a few simple primitives (construction, element/slice
> access, stride etc). Then, people may just use those as they are or link
> with the linalg libraries for specific computations.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Andrei

What would we gain other gl3n in Phobos?