Note on efficient programming: column-major order

Recently, I’ve been revisiting some of my older code and have noticed how much my understanding of efficient programming has grown. While I’m still exploring whether practice truly leads to perfection, it’s clear that my skills have improved 😊. In examining my past projects, I discovered a seemingly minor oversight that had a significant impact on performance: the choice between iterating over matrix rows versus columns in matrix operations. ...

March 1, 2019 · 4 min · 717 words · Martin C. Arnold