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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> Why should the functions be virtual?

This was discussed the other day (brought up by Ola)

  http://www.fenics.org/pipermail/dolfin-dev/2008-April/007496.html

and has been implemented for a few functions in various la classes. I 
was indifferent before to it, but now I see a benefit with the matrix 
classes. If it's clear to me that a function is a virtual function, I 
know that it can't be inlined and there will be some overhead which is 
important to know for some operations.

Garth