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[A Navaei <axnavaei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The success of MTL4 based on generic meta-programming, arises the
question about re-visiting the efficiency of code-generation
approaches, including FFC. Given that FEM can particularly benefit
from major meta-programming characteristics, namely static
polymorphism and loop unrolling, MTL4 demonstrates that the
code-generation part can be much more efficiently replaced by inlining
performed at compile-time.

Without having a concrete meta-programming implementation, it may be
impossible to predict how much performance one would gain compared to
FFC. However, MTL4 has been reported to be many times faster than
code-generation means such as ATLAS.

Based on this, are there any specific benefits in FFC code-generation
which may not be covered by meta-programming?


-Ali