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[ridg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ridgway Scott)]

> One example is the module elasticity-updated in DOLFIN for which
> assembly time dominates solution time (using the old form evaluation
> system in DOLFIN). This would be a typical example of a system which
> is more complicated than Poisson and where assembly time may be
> significant.

This is a good point. There are these complex-model linear problems
where you just form the matrix and solve. Is that what you were
thinking? Since you can vary the elasticity tensor these days with
special materials, one could even imagine optimizing over varying
elasticity tensors, in an extreme case.

                                Ridg