Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:

>   Richard,
>
>    My gut feeling is that the "hint" based system should be used by default, 
> who uses linear stuff only once (only people not doing real problems :-)). So 
> you could just provide a  single flag to say don't use hints, useful for 
> numerical comparisons. (This is all experimental, stuff anyways and will 
> evolve).

You could process the hints using command-line options and not make a
programmatic API at this time.  If there is no good default, we can talk
about whether the important MKL hints are really MKL-specific or
something that other PETSc classes might be able to use.  (There are
uses cases for implicit conversion to ELL or a compressed
representation.)  But let's not make a programmatic hints API just yet.

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