[petsc-dev] What's the point of D(A/M)GetGlobalVector?

[Matthew Knepley]

I agree with DACreateMatrix().

  Matt

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:13:14 +0300, Aron Ahmadia <
> aron.ahmadia at kaust.edu.sa> wrote:
> > Not to mention the various Get routines that are actually used to create
> > things, such as DAGetMatrix.
>
> I think that should have been named DACreateMatrix().  Other XGetY() are
> just accessors which create a managed object if needed.  When there is a
> Get/Restore pair, it implies that the access to that managed resource
> has some sort of exclusivity.  I think
> {Get,Restore}{Local,Global}Vector() are actually the only functions with
> that naming scheme that really manage a pool.
>
> Jed
>



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