project progress

[c.]

Hi Marco,

I've been following your latest commits to the repository, I think you made 
enough changes to the package
since your latest post to warrant a new one.

In particular you should be giving detailed descriptions of the examples you 
prepared, ideally showing
side-by-side the python and Octave implementation.

You should also start preparing your package for release, I'd suggest you make 
a release quite soon so
you start getting feedback.

Finally I'm still concerned about the SparseMatrix allocation issue, the 
approach you are using now, though better
than allocating a full matrix, is still suboptimal as the many array resize 
operations make it extremely slow 
and memory consuming.

I think you should insist more with the Fenics guys to get this function 
improved, if aeverything else fails we 
should patch dolfin to add the missing nnz method to the GenericMatrix class. 
How is the feature implemented in python?

c.