On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Chris Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 25/11/2014 21:48, Johan Hake wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I just pushed some fixes to the jit interface of DOLFIN. Now one can
>> jit on different mpi groups. Previously jiting was only done on rank 1
>> of the mpi_comm_world. Now it is done on rank 1 of any passed group
>> communicator.
>>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but could you explain what is the
> advantage of doing it this way?
> If you have several processes JITing the same code, where do they save it
> in the filesystem?
> If they all share the same filesystem, surely this will take up more
> resources, as more processes
> try to write at the same time?
>

​That is just an unintended (necessary?) side effect.​

Or is it intended for cases where the Expression is different on different
> MPI groups?


​Yes.

Johan​



>
>
> Chris
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