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[Joachim Berdal Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> To follow the current design, we should rather have a method that
> returns whatever data is needed to create a vector, then use the
> existing factory method to actually create the vector:
>
> 1. get layout data from matrix
> 2. get factory from matrix
> 3. use factory to create vector
>

It looks like the handiest data container for (1) is the matrix itself,
though. The actual method can still be put in the factory?
(Is there a difference, design-wise, if the method resizes rather than
creates the vector?)

-j.