2D Array memory storage configuration?

[Guest]

How is a 2 dimensional array stored in memory? That is:

for a(i,j)

is the array stored as sequential blocks of i or sequential blocks of j?

Or, does it depend of hardware?

 

[Brian Henry]

you may want to look up the terms "row major" and "column major" on
google... its the technique for storeing arrays in lists as columns or rows
depending on how your OS (or programming language) is configured to handle
them

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the proper terms.

The consensus is the VB stores 2D arrays with column major ordering.