Re: Implementing RFC 272

[email protected] Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:58:33 +1200

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.data
Organization	University of Auckland
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Buddha Buck wrote:

> When I heard about transpose() (as well as reshape(), etc), I was
> concerned about the time it would take to execute these complex
> operations.  To wit, naively, I believed that a lot of data shuffling
> would be necessary.

If I understand your message correctly this is exactly what PDL, NumPY,
etc do right now and is also described in one of my messages I sent
yesterday (Re: RFC 272 (v1) Arrays: transpose()) about implementing
aliasing ;)

  Christian