[petsc-dev] not everything belongs in PETSc; thread/task management etc

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 27, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>>   Perhaps we erred in keeping the thread/task management/model code
>>   in PETSc as opposed to a small portable library? We should revisit
>>   this, but unfortunately cannot before next Wednesday :-), or can we
>>   :-)
> 
> I was at the BLIS workshop yesterday and today discussing this with
> Field and a guy at Q-Chem.  I think an independent library is desirable
> in the long term, but I don't think it's something that we can "win" in
> the sense of having everyone adopt our library.  So we'll always need to
> interoperate with other systems.

  Sure, but it will be easier to interoperate with other systems if it is a small, non-PETSc dependent beast.

  Barry