Re: fem-fenics questions

[Daniel Kraft]

Hi!

On 2014-03-03 11:13, Marco Vassallo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Daniel Kraft <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi!
> 
>     I've recently started playing around with fem-fenics, and it works very
>     well for my application so far.  Here are just some questions I came
>     across and wanted to discuss:
> 
>     1) Whenever I run my script using fem-fenics (presumably during the call
>     to import_ufl_Problem), I see a cc1plus process popping up and using 10
>     s or so finish.  (This can also be seen with the Poisson example.)  I
>     understand that this is necessary to compile my UFL form.  Is it
>     possible to somehow skip this step unless the UFL file was changed?  It
>     takes a not negligible amount of processing time for my code and I don't
>     think the UFL file will change often.
> 
> Yes we should improve it. For the moment you can do as follow:
> 
> Go to the file generate_makefile.m in the private directory and remove
> line 59:
>  
>     rm -f Makefile _@@UFL_NAME@@\n\
> 
> In this way the makefile is not removed after you call the
> import_ufl_problem() function
> and thus the file Poisson.ufl should not be compiled again.
> 
> Otherwise, you can just comment import_ufl_problem() in your script file
> after that it has been called the first time.
> If you don't change the .ufl file you don't need to run it again.

Thanks for the suggestions!  I will probably just comment the
import_ufl_Problem line for now, that should be good enough for me.

Yours,
Daniel

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