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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:49:39PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On 1 February 2012 16:23, Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have now splitted the SWIG interface into 6 combined modules.
> >
> >  common, io, mesh, function, fem, la
> >
> > The largest .cxx file generated now is 2MB (for la with all linear algebra
> > backends installed), instead of 6MB. That is still pretty big and take some
> > 1GB of memory during compilation. But the interface can now be generated in
> > several threads, reducing compile time considerable. The runtime memory print,
> > read from a simple top, is not much more than before (some 100MB), which is
> > good.
> >
>
> Very nice!

Yes! Very very nice!!!

--
Anders


> Garth
>
> > They new compiled modules all resides under:
> >
> >  dolfin.cpp.foo
> >
> > All types and functions are now automatically included into:
> >
> >  dolfin.cpp
> >
> > which means that most modules under site-packages/dolfin still works fine.
> > There are now more types included from the compiled interface by default. If
> > this is a problem we can change that. But now everything is automated. No
> > handpicking done.
> >
> > The logic in the new SWIG interface is described in:
> >
> >  dolfin/swig/README
> >
> > One thing to be aware of is that any reference to the compiled interface from
> > another combined module have to be preluded with the name of the module.
> > Example, in la/post.i we call dolfin_error, which is defined in common. Then
> > we do:
> >
> >  common.dolfin_error(...)
> >
> > instead of previous:
> >
> >  dolfin_error(...)
> >
> > Have fun and let the bug reports come raining!
> >
> > Johan
> >
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