Matrix API support - start with formats?

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On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 15:11:39 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 14:57:19 UTC, 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
>
> Are sparse matrices a common scenario?
>
> If anything I think small vectors, non-sparse matrixes and 
> rectangles/AABB could be part of Phobos before that.

+1