That also sounds a lot like RopeStrings, although like the ChainedVectors, it doesn't do multi-dimensional arrays, just vectors (strings).
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 4:06:31 PM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote: > > I'm interested in being able to do zero-copy concatenation of > AbstractArrays, with something similar to ArrayViews, but in reverse: > > x = rand(4,2) > y = rand(4,2) > z = hcatview(x,y) # "view" that is able to index into hcat(x,y) without > creating the temporary matrix > x[1,1] = 10.0 > @assert z[1,1] == x[1,1] > > Does this exist already somewhere? If I was to build it, should I submit > a PR to somewhere (ArrayViews?) or start a new package? > > One of many uses is to generate a large block matrix, potentially composed > of both dense and sparse matrices. Bonus points if I can get a > ContiguousView when "view(z, 1:3, 4:5)" refers to a range that is totally > encapsulated by a dense child matrix. >
