<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Do we really want mallocs for EVERY single multiple-dispatch function call in PETSc? I suggest not having MatQueryOp() but calling directly PetscOpFListFind() (with the MatOpFList argument) and changing PetscOpFListAdd/Find() to use variable args directly.<br>
<br>
Finally do we really want string comparisons at all here? Or do we want XXXRegister() (for example, MatRegister()) to compute an integer type id to go with each char *type_name and do the search off the integer type id instead of strings? Thus making PetscOpFListFind() super light weight?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>static struct {</div><div style> PetscMultiDispatch ptap;</div><div style> ...</div><div style>} MatMultiDispatch;</div><div><br></div><div style>I would have PetscMultiDispatchRegister("MatPtAP",2,&MatMultiDispatch.ptap), then<br>
<br></div><div style>PetscMultiDispatchFind(MatMultiDispatch.ptap,(PetscObject)A,(PetscObject)P,&ptapfunc);</div><div style><br></div><div style>I think passing PetscObject is natural here, in which case using obj->type_id instead of obj->type_name can be done later. But on that front, yes, I think making integers for all registered type_names would be good. Among other things, it would make the PetscObjectTypeCompares fast, although I think those places should eventually be refactored.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Barry<br>
<br>
<br>
PetscErrorCode MatQueryOp(MPI_Comm comm, PetscVoidFunction* function, const char op[], PetscInt numArgs, ...)<br>
{<br>
PetscErrorCode ierr;<br>
va_list ap;<br>
PetscInt i;<br>
const char *argType;<br>
char **argTypes = PETSC_NULL;<br>
<br>
PetscFunctionBegin;<br>
va_start(ap,numArgs);<br>
if (numArgs) {<br>
ierr = PetscMalloc(sizeof(char*)*numArgs, &argTypes);CHKERRQ(ierr);<br>
}<br>
for (i = 0; i < numArgs; ++i) {<br>
argType = va_arg(ap,const char*);<br>
ierr = PetscStrallocpy(argType, argTypes+i);CHKERRQ(ierr);<br>
}<br>
va_end(ap);<br>
ierr = PetscOpFListFind(comm, MatOpList, function, op, numArgs, argTypes);CHKERRQ(ierr);<br>
for (i = 0; i < numArgs; ++i) {<br>
ierr = PetscFree(argTypes[i]);CHKERRQ(ierr);<br>
}<br>
ierr = PetscFree(argTypes);CHKERRQ(ierr);<br>
PetscFunctionReturn(0);<br>
}<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div></div>