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One or more new changesets pushed to the primary dolfin repository.
A short summary of the last three changesets is included below.

changeset:   7067:5efbfb16a1b8aab6be985d739d085a8b73afb707
tag:         tip
user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
date:        Tue Sep 15 14:04:39 2009 +0200
files:       bench/fem/speedup/Poisson.h bench/fem/speedup/Poisson.ufl bench/fem/speedup/SConstruct bench/fem/speedup/assemble-poisson.cpp bench/fem/speedup/bench bench/fem/speedup/bench.log bench/fem/speedup/run-bench bench/fem/speedup/solve-poisson.cpp
description:
Add first version of script for testing parallel speedup. Run with ./bench.

Have not tried on a big problem or a machine with many processors.
Example results from my dual-core laptop on a very small problem:

Speedup  |  Assemble  Assemble + solve
--------------------------------------
1        |         1                 1
2        |         1           0.75439
3        |   0.83333           0.54386
4        |   0.83333            0.5614
5        |       0.5           0.54386
6        |       0.5           0.57895
7        |   0.33333           0.66667
8        |   0.33333           0.64912

(Negative speedups)


changeset:   7066:a59e1c1e9d86f373c6289ed7c7a76c03c3a62c9f
user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
date:        Tue Sep 15 13:57:07 2009 +0200
files:       dolfin/log/Logger.cpp dolfin/log/Table.cpp dolfin/log/Table.h dolfin/mesh/Mesh.cpp dolfin/parameter/Parameters.cpp
description:
Bug fix for str() function in Table, now working with info() in Python


changeset:   7065:a54e8e47dfe0fd5c6601da9f9aafe265845b934c
user:        Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
date:        Tue Sep 15 11:04:51 2009 +0200
files:       demo/fem/simple/cpp/main.cpp demo/fem/simple/python/demo.py
description:
Add not_working_in_parallel to demo/fem/simple. Fails when trying to partition
a mesh consisting of a single cell. (There should be a better error message than
a segmentation fault.)

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