Will Pazner

> What about some breaking changes to make the naming more consistent? See #1557 for the tracker. I think we do want to do some naming cleanup/improved consistency/etc. (and maybe...

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Would it also make sense to consider adding a more traditional singleton-type interface for `Device`? For example, adding static `Device::Init()` analogous to `Mpi::Init()` and `Hypre::Init()`. Is `Device` designed the way...

If there is a consensus that we want to make this change, then I think we can do it here. I'll include a potential patch below. I'd want to get...

> If there is a consensus that we want to make this change, then I think we can do it here. I'll include a potential patch below. I'd want to...

Just updated this and resolved conflicts with the single-precision support. Thoughts on this @artv3, @v-dobrev?

> @pazner, can you please resolve conflicts? Done. Any chance to get a review on this?

One thing we might want to consider (especially as we start thinking about MFEM 5.0) is if we want to try to simplify/make systematic MFEM's ownership semantics (perhaps using something...

Right, I agree that we should reach a consensus as a project on the approach we want to take to shared ownership before implementing things. This could look like guidelines...

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