[petsc-dev] This has officially become too ugly to read

[Barry Smith]

   Some is used to indicate that some (certain but not all entries) of a vector are moved to or from the GPU.  For example in MatMult() the only vector values that need to be moved from the GPU to the main memory are those that are scattered to other processes.

   Barry

On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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> > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev/rev/2a4f352daf49
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> > What is going on here, and why can't it be done more succintly?
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>   Hell its GPUs, what do you expect?
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>   What particularly part do you feel is overly complex and could be more succintly?
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> This checkin of fixes is larger than the entire prior implementation. Why, what is better?
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> There are a ton of new functions with obscure names (unless Some has a meaning which
> escapes me).
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> There seem to be a huge number of cases treated in enormous functions rather than
> factoring them out.
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>    Matt
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>   Barry
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> >     Matt
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> > --
> > What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
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> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener