[Developers] If clauses in schedule

[Erik Schnetter]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 16:51:27, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:21:19PM -0500, Erik Schnetter wrote:
>> The new if clauses are evaluated at run time and can thus examine  
>> grid
>> scalars.  Since there is no expression parser, they can only depend  
>> on
>> whether a grid scalar is zero or not.  This is the same mechanism  
>> that is
>> used for WHILE clauses.
>
> What prevents Cactus from also translating those expressions to C and
> executing them at runtime not only at the very beginning, but also
> during the evolution?


In principle nothing.  One would need to come up with a good syntax,  
ensure that the translation happens correctly, and then implement  
this.  Would this feature be important to you?

-erik

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