Related to my other email... another thing that would allow us to do a LOT of optimization is if we had a free void pointer on DofObject. This would allow us to attach any kind of data structure we want for caching computations on DofObject (for instance: caching the value of shape functions at the quadrature points!).
I see this as a compile time option (that is off by default) because it obviously adds a bit of memory overhead. Note: for the kinds of optimizations I'm talking about I don't even want a log(n) lookup in a map or the complexity of a hash computation for a hash-map. I really want a (nearly) instantaneous access to a cached data structure. Any opinions? Derek
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