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Add support for C contiguous arrays

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating how array layouts are represented in the Python bindings, then inspect reductions, sort, scan, FFTs, matmul, LU, QR, Cholesky, and solve. Done should include defined C-contiguous behavior for the affected functions and tests covering it.

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Description

Many python modules default to C contiguous layouts. Adding support for this would be nice.

This can be solved independently of upstream. Most functions are independent of the layout. The few that are dependent include the following.

  • Functions that depend on the dimension number: reductions / sort / scan / ffts.
  • Linear algebra functions that assume column major layout: matmul, lu, qr, cholesky, solve.
  • Perhaps some others I am missing.
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