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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/6/30 Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>> The best way to achieve good UFC compatibility is to limit
>> assumptions about the form compilers to a minimum, and
>> (a) ufl form
>> (b) which compiler?
>> (c) a generic set of compiler options (any kind of object)
>> sounds to me like a good generalization.
>
> Sounds good. We can just have a parameter
>
>  form_compiler_options
>
> which is passed on to the form compiler in assemble().
>
> Should the choice of form compiler be an argument to assemble() or
> should it be a global option set by dolfin_set()?

I think that can safely stay a global option, at least for now.

In particular, mixing form compilers in one application will
be messy because of dofmaps, and I don't think fixing that
is where we want to spend our time.

--
Martin