why not a single PETSc library

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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>  I think its legitimate to only want some of our crap.
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>
>   You only get what you use; if you only use KSP then only the KSP and
> below stuff will be pulled into your program, so what is the problem?
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>   I've never used the bessel function, yet I still use sin() from the math
> library without a problem.


You still have to load the whole damn thing into memory first.

  Matt


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>    Barry
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>>  Matt
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>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>>  In the old days we stored the compiled PETSc into a collection of
>> libraries to make linking faster.
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>>  Today, is there any reason not to just have all the compiled PETSc code
>> go in libpetsc.XXXX?
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>>  Barry
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>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
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-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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