<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Yes. PetscSection represents groups of numbers, and you can see the grouping.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>
IS is a map from (int) -> (int), but PetscSection is a map from (int) -> (int,int) where the pair is interpreted to mean an interval of non-negative extent. If it's any use, an IS could be thought of as the special case (int) -> (int,1).</div>
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What queries "do not just return members of this list" in PETSc section? (That is queries we wish to retain anyways).</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>For example, you can ask "how many items are in group p?". This is crucial, and the whole point of the structure.</div>
<div>I don't see how you can recover that information from just the list of dof numbers.</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div></div>