On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Barry Smith<bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > >> Barry Smith wrote: >> > ? ?This is just a limitation of the current implementation due to the way > the design evolved over time. > There is nothing intrinsic to the abstract design of PETSc that prevents the > type from being > properly processed before the sizes are set. >
I agree 100% with you.. the only issue are tons of code to review and fix :-( > > ? This is really yucky API you propose here; that no sane person would > propose except to work > around a shortfall in the current implementation. > We could start fixing Vec, next go for Mat ... -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594