Comment by riazrizvi
6 hours ago
No, not when you're designing processes based on a Von Neumann (sequential RAM) architecture. This is the characteristic feature of what the 'array tool' represents.
6 hours ago
No, not when you're designing processes based on a Von Neumann (sequential RAM) architecture. This is the characteristic feature of what the 'array tool' represents.
That depends on the language. I have used (and implemented) languages where arrays are modeled as a function from an index space to some expression. During compilation, this is used to drive various optimisations. For those arrays that need a run-time representation, they may be stored in the classic way (a dense region of memory accessed with offsets computed from indexes), but also in more complicated ways, such as some kind of tree structure. These are still, semantically, arrays at the language level.