On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > When you and Peter changed the way SNES used to work, I asked you how I
> > should
> > change Plex. You told me to do this:
> >
> >     ierr = DMSNESSetFunctionLocal(dm,  (PetscErrorCode
> > (*)(DM,Vec,Vec,void*)) DMPlexComputeResidualFEM, &user);CHKERRQ(ierr);
> >     ierr = DMSNESSetJacobianLocal(dm,  (PetscErrorCode
> > (*)(DM,Vec,Mat,Mat,MatStructure*,void*)) DMPlexComputeJacobianFEM,
> > &user);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>
> Can you find the email?  I don't think I would have recommended this.
>
> > which I did. Moreover, this is how it always worked, namely specifying
> the
> > local function.
> > What exactly are you proposing to replace this?
>
> DMPlexSNESSetFunctionFEM(), similar to DMDASNESSetFunctionLocal in
> src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex5.c and ex19.c.
>

What exactly is the difference? And now I know that both interfaces are bad
because
I cannot even tell the difference by looking.

   Matt

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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
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