[petsc-users] Duplicate options

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> > What will we use to uniquely identify a block of options? I hate the idea
> > of a random string.
> > Its too easy to mess up. Should we use a class+type_name?
>
> Prefix is relevant.  We could hash the contents to make the comparison
> fixed-length.
>

So, SHA1(class, type_name, prefix)? I could live with that. Then we
maintain a
khash table of those we have seen while printing.

   Matt

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