[petsc-dev] Line search routine duplication

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 9, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Peter Brune wrote:

> The line search routines exposed through petscsnes.h (SNESXXXLineSearch and ilk) live in src/snes/ls are dependent on the private context of the ls newton method.  This seems to have caused a fairly large degree of code duplication of useful pieces in ls, picard, and qn.
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> Would moving all of these somewhere else and removing their dependency on ls specific solver context be a reasonable course of action?

   Yes, but not yet.  Keep on doing separate ones and once we have a complete collection we'll look at them all and determine the commonalities. I don't want to do it yet because I don't think we have all the cases yet.

   Barry

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> - Peter