[f2py] column major versus row major storage question...

[Louis Wicker]

Pearu:

you may have helped me solve a big problem - maybe.   I had not  
recognized the fact that the transpose IS contiguous, but not the  
actual array.
I am doing output in PyTables, and the fact that the array was not  
contiguous was slowing down the IO by a factor of nearly 100.  I knew  
something about this
was the issue, and once I transpose the array, the IO speeds up again.

But, one other issue arises:

If I do the transpose on a Numeric array, the data are contiguous as in  
your example.  If the array is a numarray, the transpose is NOT  
contiguous.  Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks again...

Lou Wicker
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