[Trilinos-Users] Epetra_LinearProblem.AssertSymmetric()

[John Haws]

I've noticed that the Epetra_LinearProblem method AssertSymmetric() is not used 
in the examples, but often the matrices in the examples are symmetric. Is there 
a reason to avoid this function? What is the implication of invoking this function?

Since we are usually working with epetra in a parallel processing environment, I 
suppose sparse matrices should be stored explicitly (as opposed to only storing 
the upper or lower triangle), but is there epetra functionality I should be 
taking advantage of when I am working with symmetric matrices?
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