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Re: Where did the 3 geometric dimensions come from?

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ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 02:04:15 -0000,
> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:

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>> How an array is stored is up to the compiler.
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2565039/how-are-multi-dimensional-arrays-formatted-in-memory
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-major_order
>> 
>> 
> 
> Sure but in both cases what I suspected takes place,
> that is a multidimensional array of data gets stored
> in a linear form. The second link indicates that the
> order by which this linear arrangement is made can be
> different (contiguous by row or contiguous by column). 
> 
> At first link it shows data from a two dimensional
> array are stored in a linear way, but mentions a
> complication that may occur trying to access the data
> in a function's argument using a common practice
> (using a pointer to that data location). 
> 
> These are just nitty gritty of the programming
> languages and compilers. But data itself is always
> stored linearly as it wouldn't make sense to be
> otherwise because computer wouldn't understand two or
> three dimensionality. 

Computers don't understand anything.

It is the compiler that determines how data will be stored and recovered.

> Thanks god Java programming doesn't deal with memory
> allocation :) The links you provided reminded me of C
> which I left forever with the advent of Java. No
> pointers, no memory allocation / deallocations. Not a
> worry in the world compared to C. In Java such tricky
> nuisances are all taken care of automatically. 

If you think Java "doesn't deal with memory allocation", lord help
anyone that runs a program you write.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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