The children will be positioned in a two dimensional array, e.g. allowing easy creation of button fields (maybe for calculator).
The children in your taglist are always read line by line.
When MUI layouts two-dimensional groups, it does actually two layout calculations, one for the rows and one the columns. Parameters like weights and dimensions are handled this way:
Actually, there is no difference if you use MUIA_Group_Columns or MUIA_Group_Rows.