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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday November 7 2011 15:23:29 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:06:38PM -0800, Johan Hake wrote:
> > Hello!
> >  
> > Are any of these parameters every used in JIT compilation?
> > (From GlobalParameters.h)
> >  
> > p.add("optimize_form", false);
> > p.add("optimize_use_dofmap_cache", false);
> > p.add("optimize_use_tensor_cache", false);
> > p.add("optimize", false);
> >  
> > Looks to me that these are legacy parameters. We now use:
> >  
> > parameters["form_compiler"].foo
> >  
> > to set the optimization.
> >  
> > Johan
> 
> Looks like only the last two are used and then in the same way.
> 
> >From site-packages/dolfin/fem/assembling.py:
>   # Check if we should use the cache
>   use_cache = cpp.parameters["optimize_use_tensor_cache"] or \
>               cpp.parameters["optimize"]
> 
> That is a bit silly to say the least...
> 
> I suggest we remove those parameters and add a boolean parameter
> use_tensor_cache to assemble() in Python.

Sounds good.

Johan