[petsc-dev] [petsc-maint #67637] Re: [petsc-users] Scalability of AO ?

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 22:07, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Why do you care if there are dependencies? Admittedly that may make PETSc
> harder to develop and maintain


Exactly.


> but from the user point of view what is wrong with just having one
> big-assed blob?


It doesn't matter for users.

(But a circular dependency would make executables grow so its existence
might matter to someone using only Mat+Vec in an extremely low-memory
environment.)
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