The real answer is you almost never need to solve this silly problem. If your data is static, why are you counting through arrays? If its dynamic, your n is p

The real answer is you almost never need to solve this silly problem. If your data is static, why are you counting through arrays? If its dynamic, your n is probably low enough it doesn't matter or you're using some better data structure than an array. If you do hit this kind of problem its usually in games (lots of dynamic user generated content) and even then the n is usually negligible. The parts where this does matter are already very data oriented. (Although not just in the way the article implies. Think vertex buffers and bitmaps.) Point is, languages could probably add some kind of column oriented type of array and compilers could efficiently loop through them but it probably wouldn't really help all that much.