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

The number of Mesh members functions is getting pretty large, as too is
the number of classes in the dolfin/mesh directory. This is likely to
grow as more search, parallel and refinement features are added. Is it
therefore sensible to:

  - Move mesh algorithms (search, refine, generate, etc) to a separate
directory?

  - Remove 'algorithmic' functions from Mesh, and make them members of
static classes or free functions (as we've done for refine)? Mesh would
then be just a data structure.

The names of some search-related Mesh member functions are a bit
complex. Can we simplify them, e.g.

    void all_intersected_entities(const Point& point,
                                  uint_set&  ids_result) const;

to
    void intersected_cells(const Point& point,
                           uint_set& ids_result) const;

and

    int any_intersected_entity(const Point& point) const;

to

    int intersected_cell(const Point& point) const;

(or int isupport_cell(const Point& point) const;).

Garth