The corresponding "restore" function doesn't really restore anything. You could consider naming it Vec.updateGPUstatus or Vec.GPUGetLatest or something of that sort. Thanks Ashwin On 27 Oct 2014 06:30, "Lisandro Dalcin" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 27 October 2014 13:49, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote:

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1) petsc4py will provide a method Vec.getCUDAAddress() that will return a plain Python integer (and a corresponding restoreCUDAAddress()). Any other name to suggest? Using "CUDAArray" would be a bit misleading in Python land.

Perhaps "getCUDAHandle()" is better? Please help me to decide, I'm really bad at naming things.

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