On Wed, 19 May 2010 16:27:13 -0600, Derek Gaston <fried...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would this really be the case?  I thought NumericVector kept track of
> whether or not it was closed and wouldn't redo communication.
> Certainly I can't imagine Petsc redoing communication if you close a
> vector twice (what would it communicate the second time?).

It has to do a reduction to make sure everyone agrees that nothing
changed.  This will be cheap for most use cases and most architectures,
but perhaps not always.

Jed

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