I suspect this is precisely the case. Please do open an issue.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Kevin Squire <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I would suggest doing a quick search on github for any issues related to
> sparse matrices, and if none are relevant, opening a new one.  One likely
> possibility is that neither function has been specialized for sparse
> matrices, and that the general fallback version of these functions are slow
> for sparse matrices.  In either case, a specialized function should be easy
> to code.
>
> Cheers,
>    Kevin
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Christoph Ortner <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I don't have a solution, but a related comment: slicing of large sparse
>> matrices is very slow too. E.g., I like to assemble a stiffness matrix (for
>> a PDE) with free boundary conditions and then impose clamped boundaries by
>> taking a subset of the matrix,
>>     B = A[Ifree, Ifree]
>> this is so slow that I had to completely give up on it and rewrite all my
>> assembly codes.
>>
>> I suspect that the flipxx functions and this are a similar issue?
>>
>> Is there already an issue filed for this?
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>>
>

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