Cast matrix as a vector?

[Matthew Knepley]

1) I guarantee you the copy takes no time. Measure it.

2) If you are worried about memory, PETSc Vec and dense
     matrix can have the same layout and share a pointer.

  Matt

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:42 AM, liu chang <liuchangjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using TAO's LMVM method for optimize a dense matrix, but TAO
> expects its input as a Vec. Do I have to copy the content back and
> forth between a Mat and a Vec? Can I somehow cast the Mat into a Vec?
>
> Both the Mat and the Vec are distributed evenly across the processes
> so ideally there doesn't need to be any copying at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Liu Chang
>



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