Generic interface to iterate over stored elements of array?

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I’m playing with making a simple optimization package generic to any type of input. It is already generic to inputs in the form vectors, matrices, number types (precision), units, etc.

But I could not yet make it generic for sparse matrices as inputs, because iterators like

for i in eachindex(x)
    ...
end

iterate over all indexes of the matrices, stored or not.

Is there a generic iterator to iterate over stored-only elements of sparse matrices (specifically SparseMatrixCSC from SparseArrays). I have seen that some of that was discussed previously and led to the ArrayIteration.jl package, but it seems that it was not released?

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@rayegun is working on a sparse array interface. I can’t say if it would share an API with dense arrays. There’s also the issue of distributed and GPU support, but I don’t think we have a good abstraction for all the right now

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ArrayIteration.jl may return in some form. A good sparse array interface is still some ways off, but it will include iterating over stored values.

In the upcoming release of SuiteSparseGraphBLAS.jl (v0.6) there will be a nonzeros iterator as well, although it’s not quite ready.

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