[Carpet] expensive logging of CarpetRegrid[2] parameter changes

Bela Szilagyi szilagyi at aei.mpg.de
Wed Nov 7 17:53:36 CET 2007


Erik,

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:43:27 Erik Schnetter wrote:
> > instead of steerable parameters ?
>
> I found in the past that using parameter steering during simulations  
> does not work.  There are two main problems.  The first is that there  
> is no machine-readable output about parameter values, and the other  
> is that parameter settings are often overwritten during recovery.  I  
> have therefore already implemented such grid scalars, and these grid  
> scalars are used by other thorns, e.g. CarpetTracker.  The parameters  
> are only used during initialisation.

The steerable parameter interface for CarpetRegrid DOES work for me.  Why do 
you want to disable it?  I often hit various problems with CarpetTracker / 
CarpetRegrid2 and just find it easier to use the interface I built to 
CarpetRegrid.  You can argue that should I find a problem with CarpetRegrid2 
I should either fix it or complain about it.  But that is much more 
time-expensive than to use existing software that works with my thorns.


> I will remove the STEERABLE tags, since they are now outdated.

Then I'll have to remember not to update Carpet.


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