[Trilinos-Users] Epetra_SerialDenseVector vs. Teuchos::SerialDenseVector

Heroux, Michael A maherou at sandia.gov
Tue Jul 27 11:10:32 MDT 2010


Nico,

My advice is that, if there is functionality overlap between Epetra and
Teuchos, you should use Teuchos.  Historically, we have migrated a lot of
Epetra functionality into Teuchos, generalizing it as part of the migration.
This is what happened in this case.

Mike


On 7/27/10 12:00 PM, "Christopher Grover Baker" <bakercg at ornl.gov> wrote:

> Nico,
> 
> Aside from the fact that Teuchos::SerialDenseVector is templated on the
> underlying scalar type and Epetra_SerialDenseVector is hard-coded to double,
> there should not be much difference between the two. The Epetra object will
> see little use outside of Epetra, while the Teuchos object will be used by
> templated packages. Although, to be honest, I can't think of any use of
> Teuchos::SerialDenseVector in any of the templated packages that I work on
> (including Tpetra).
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> On 7/27/10 12:10 PM, "Nico Schlömer" <nico.schloemer at ua.ac.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just saw that for the Epetra_SerialDenseVector class I've always used
> there seems to be an equivalent in Teuchos::SerialDenseVector.
> 
> Is the use of one of the two classes recommended over the other?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nico
> 
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