Re: [Pysparse-users] Pysparse installation problems

[Rob S. <rs...@MI...>]

> The matvec behavior is the intended behavior. The whole idea of the
> PysparseMatrix class is that it is "easy" and "natural" to use.
> Amongst other things, that means you can say y=A*x instead of
> A.matvec(x,y). The savvy user will notice (as you did) that ll_mat
> objects are more efficient and will use those. The typical user will
> use the PysparseMatrix class.

That creates a rather broken API. Having an inplace version of matvec
is fine, but please at least call it "matvec_inplace" or something, in
both ll_mat and jdsym, to make it clear that it's not supposed to be
matvec. The current situation is very confusing.

-- Rob