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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:57 +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:49:57PM +0200, DOLFIN wrote:
> > One or more new changesets pushed to the primary DOLFIN repository.
> > A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.
> > 
> > changeset:   1978:47f9d2da5dbba9a017d08f5bca890aae14f28f7e
> > tag:         tip
> > user:        "Garth N. Wells <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>"
> > date:        Wed May 31 15:49:47 2006 +0200
> > files:       src/kernel/fem/dolfin/FEM.h src/kernel/la/LU.cpp src/kernel/la/Makefile.am src/kernel/la/Makefile.in src/kernel/la/PETScSparseMatrix.cpp src/kernel/la/PETScVector.cpp src/kernel/la/SparseVector.cpp src/kernel/la/VirtualMatrix.cpp src/kernel/la/dolfin/GenericMatrix.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/LU.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/Makefile.am src/kernel/la/dolfin/Makefile.in src/kernel/la/dolfin/PETScSparseMatrix.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/PETScVector.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/SparseVector.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/Vector.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/VirtualMatrix.h src/kernel/la/dolfin/dolfin_la.h
> > description:
> > Rename "SparseVector" "PETScVector".
> 
> Why name it PETScVector instead of PETScSparseVector (corresponding to
> PETScSparseMatrix). Can there be PETSc matrices which can be either
> dense or sparse, but only one type of PETSc vector?
> 

There is only one PETSc vector type, hence the name. There are both
sparse and dense PETSc matrices, and PETSc vectors can "play" with both
dense and sparse PETSc matrices.

Garth


> /Anders
> 
> 
> > changeset:   1977:1d487b6bc87e09068e80143ed9d6eb2877d501d8
> > user:        "Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>"
> > date:        Wed May 31 14:06:37 2006 +0200
> > files:       ChangeLog
> > description:
> > Update ChangeLog
> > 
> > 
> > changeset:   1976:c889418876fd816ad40c701419b2fe6769838ecc
> > user:        "Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>"
> > date:        Wed May 31 14:06:09 2006 +0200
> > files:       src/demo/ode/courtemanche/main.cpp src/kernel/io/OctaveFile.cpp src/test/main.cpp
> > description:
> > Remove output of zeros in Octave matrix file format.
> > 
> > 
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