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> Yes, on modern hardware, having a pointer for each row of the matrix
> usually leads to slower code. The reason is that the indexing
> operation by multilply/add is actually faster than fetching a pointer
> from an array and then adding, thereby incurring an extra memory fetch
> and cache pollution. The above holds for large matrices, I haven't

So Java's handling of arrays is inefficient
for matrices, even if bypassing the JVM by
compiling to native code?