On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > It is seriously misleading that TSType rosw uses SNES as the solver > since it is only using SNESKSP and the algorithm really is built around > only linear solves. Are you sure that using SNES is the right model for > this family of algorithms? Convince me. > > I realize one person among us thinks we should use SNES for both linear > and nonlinear solves, but he is wrong :-) Let me try a Venn Diagram: _________________________________ / _____________ \ | / \ | | Nonlinear problems | Linear problems | | | \ _____________/ | \_________________________________/ Also, there is no overhead using SNES, so I would say Do Not Multiply Entities Beyond The Necessary. Matt Matt > > Barry > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20121016/7691c579/attachment-0001.html>
