[petsc-dev] ugliness due to missing lapack routines

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Having running applications that mix real and complex and different
> precisions. Having super efficient 2 by 2 SNES solves. Having super
> efficient 20 by 20 TS integrations and all combinations of such things.
>

This sounds like a request for a JIT. I think there are good uses for JITs.

Lack of a binary interface is bad for plugins.


>
>    Yes, this could conceivably be done using the macro games of sfbasic.c
> and vscat.h but that's a bit like taking some hand tools into the forests
> of Alaska and building a house. Challenging and fun, but still you've got
> to share one room with the kids and go outside to take a dump.
>

I never understood people that prefer to shit in their houses.
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