JuliaLang/julia — pull request #5452 by amitmurthy (2014-01-20 14:50:15+00:00)
Title: ArrayDist storing distribution info for darrays. Deprecated d* functions...

This PR does the following:

- Added `ArrayDist` which is an abstract type. Subtypes are `SharedDist` and `ChunkedDist`. Both store the array dimensions and list of processes participating in the distribution.
- `ChunkedDist` also stores the chunked indexes for the `DArray`
- d* functions have been deprecated in favor of the regular convenience constructors accepting a ChunkedDist

Will update documentation if the above is OK.

Updates to SharedArray using a SharedDist will be made in a separate PR.