MatStash() use linked list of chunks

[Matthew Knepley]

Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

     If we are really going to do this, shouldn't we approach it as a
data structures problem? We need a certain structure, which here appears
to be "vector", or maybe "list". We make a general interface, and then
code up some implementation, like a linked list. Then we can use this
interface/impl other places in the code, like the LU part, rather than
rely on our old cut&paste strategy.

     Matt

> Barry,
>
> I can work on this.
>
> My understanding is:
> Using linked list in MatStashExpand_Private() as the way we used
> in MatLUFactorSymbolic_SeqAIJ().
>
> Hong
>
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Barry Smith wrote:
>
>>
>>    Someone should change the storage mechanism for
>> MatStash to keep a linked list of allocated arrays instead of
>> always allocating a larger one and copying all the values over to
>> the larger one.
>>
>>    Barry
>>
>>
>
>
>

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