why not a single PETSc library

[Dima Karpeev]

Don't .so's get loaded into memory as one whole piece?

On Jun 9, 2009, at 16:40, 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.
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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?
>>
>> 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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