<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.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=":26g"> The issue is not allowing or even often using SF. The issue is that DMGlobalToLocal() already has the flexibility to use a globaltolocal function pointer. And I object to hiding that or pretending it doesn't exist and saying one HAS to use SF especially if one already has code that does exactly what is needed some other way.<div class="yj6qo ajU">
<div id=":26h" class="ajR" tabindex="0"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sure, if he has the code, then by all means, he should have DM call his code. But if that code was either not already written or if he could get better reuse internally by using PetscSF, it may be a fine choice.<br>
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