[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #56111] petsc4py does not work with complex numbers?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 16 November 2010 22:18, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
>> On 16 November 2010 16:59, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>> We pushed a fix for this to petsc-dev.
>>>
>>
>> So it seems that petc4py is not so broken! At least, it helped to
>> discover two bugs in core PETSc!!
>>
>> (Sorry, Barry was so hard with me in previous mails that I could not
>> resist the sarcasm)
>
>  We ran your 1900 tests in 10 seconds. Running the PETSc test suite takes like an hour and has no where near that many tests.
>

However, PETSc tests do exercise the solution of actual problems, so
you can catch algorithmic regressions. Also note that each test is
petsc4py is actually a test for a single method, so the 1900 count is
a bit artificial. And finally, let me add that many things (methods,
features, etc) are still untested :-) .


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