[petsc-dev] Remove calls to XXXReset() in XXXDestroy()

[Barry Smith]

On May 13, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 13 May 2011 15:50, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> On May 13, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13 May 2011 01:51, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On May 12, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>> 
> 
> Again, this is because in PETSc you do not care about error recovery,
> you just MPI_Abort() in normal cases, or offer no guarantees about
> continuing execution after errors.

    True. 

> I'm not blaming PETSc for this, it
> is just like MPI-2!.

    Yes, it is so totally baked into the MPI model so why would I try to do anything better with PETSc on top of MPI.

    Ironically, while writing the MATLAB interface to PETSc I suddenly started to care, just like you care with python, because MATLAB users don't like to restart MATLAB every three minutes :-)

> BTW, Writing a REALLY good destructor in C++ is a
> pain. What's happens if an exception is thrown in the middle of object
> destruction and you still have things to delete[]?

   Then I would argue that something is wrong with C++ in this regard.


    Barry

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