One more thing I thought about. Has anyone given any thought about how to send mixed types through these packed ranges? My specific use case needs a few Real numbers (Points, but not Nodes) along with all the integers I'm sending. I suppose I could pack all of my types into an unsigned char array and reconstruct them... I'm not sure I want to do that so I'll probably just send a second list for now.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:09 PM Cody Permann <codyperm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I contacted Roy off-list yesterday to inquire about using packed ranges. > It's probably a good idea for me to continue the discussion on the list so > others can benefit from my learning experience. So, here goes! > > So far I've managed to get the 4 key methods stubbed out with the right > template arguments compiled and running: > packable_size, pack, unpacked and packed_size > > I must say that it took me a bit of time to understand the difference > between "packed_size" and "packable_size". Just to disclose that here, the > former is called during unpack while the latter is called during pack. > Makes sense now. > > I did run into one hitch that I wasn't able to get around cleanly. The > various packed range receiving operations take output iterators to fill a > container somewhere. I wasn't able to figure out what to do here. Using the > standard iterators (like back_inserter) failed with missing operators > errors or other template instantiation problems. As a workaround, I snagged > the mesh_insert_iterator and was able to adapt it so my code compiles. Is > this an unintended consequence of all this heavy templating? It seems like > we should be able to use a standard insert iterator here with any old > container (unless I'm just doing something plain wrong). > > Anyway, I haven't successfully implemented the routines to actually move > the data yet but I can see that they are being called as expected so it's > just a matter of filling in the details now. I'm excited about using this > capability! > > Cody > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
