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

[Jed Brown]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:14:30 -0500, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Maybe Create/Destroy isn't the right solution, but there appears to be
> some confusion
> about the meaning of Get/Restore in this context.  It definitely
> differs from VecGet/RestoreArray.
> For example: there is no guarantee that subsequent DAGetXXXs,
> punctuated by DARestoreXXXs,
> will give one the same object.

Indeed, managing a pool has different semantics.  Is it worth looking
for a less ambiguous/overloaded name?

  Checkout/Checkin
  Borrow/Return
  Claim/Release

Jed