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[Garth Wells <747318@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This isn't a bug. It should be turned into a Blueprint (for discussion).

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Title:
  Python: Make algebra faster by using pool of vectors

Status in DOLFIN:
  New

Bug description:
  In Python, the natural way to write matrix algebra involves a lot of
  temporary vector creation. By implementing a pool of vectors, I see a
  15-20% performance improvement in a matrix-algebra heavy workload. The
  basic idea is to add a method to the GenericMatrix interface (Python
  only, probably). Then Matrix.__mul__ (and everywhere else a vector is
  needed) can use this method whenever they need to create a vector, and
  they are transparently re-used whenever they go out of scope.

      @vec_pool
      def create_vec(self, dim=1):
          vec = dolfin.Vector()
          self.resize(vec, dim)
          return vec

  The implementation of the vec_pool decorator is found here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jobh/cbc.block/trunk/download/head:/block/object__pool.py/object_pool.py
  (code copyright me, LGPL or whatever you prefer.)