<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 21:07, Philip, Bobby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philipb@ornl.gov">philipb@ornl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":174">Every apply call from KSP does need to initialize data over the whole<br>
hierarchy that is consistent across the levels.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Why not encapsulate this whole operation into a scatter of some sort? I'm having a hard time visualizing this operation being a large cost compared to other operations like physics/smoother for fundamental reasons. Of course the current interfaces could make it expensive and I understand not prioritizing low-level changes when the current solution works.</div>