[NDTensors] Introduce NestedPermutedDimsArrays submodule
#1589
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This introduces a
NestedPermutedDimsArraysmodule that defines aNestedPermutedDimsArraytype, which is like Base.PermutedDimsArray but is singly nested, i.e. it is a lazily permuted array where the elements are also lazily permuted.This is meant to serve as the new output type of
blocks(::PermutedDimsArray)inBlockSparseArrays, i.e.blocks(a::PermutedDimsArray) = NestedPermutedDimsArray(blocks(parent(a)), perm(a)), as an alternative to the current design based on SparsePermutedDimsArrayBlocks. That will make thePermutedDimsArraywrapper more in line with the design of theAdjointandTransposewrappers as of #1580. However, in order for that to work, we will also have to add support forNestedPermutedDimsArraysinSparseArrayInterface, which will be handled in a future PR.@lkdvos
Note that something similar could be achieved by composing a
PermutedDimsArraywith aMappedArraywhere the map (and inverse map) itself constructs aPermutedDimsArray, and in fact that was an earlier design I used inBlockSparseArrays. Maybe we can consider that in the future, though dealing with nested wrappers might be a bit tricky to deal with inSparseArrayInterfaceright now, so this approach feels simpler for now.