FFC: The FEniCS Form Compiler
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FFC is a compiler for finite element variational forms. From a high-level
description of the form, it generates efficient low-level C++ code that
can be used to assemble the corresponding discrete operator (tensor). In
particular, a bilinear form may be assembled into a matrix and a linear
form may be assembled into a vector.

FFC may be used either from the command line (by invoking the 'ffc' command)
or as a Python module ('import ffc').

FFC is part of the FEniCS project (www.fenics.org) and functions as a
just-in-time (JIT) compiler for DOLFIN.

For further introduction to FFC, open the FFC user manual available in
the subdirectory doc/manual/ of this source tree, or try out the demos
available in the subdirectory src/demo/ of this source tree.

License:
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  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

Dependencies:
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  1. Python, version 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5

  2. The latest version of FIAT

     You need to have FIAT installed. FIAT is available from
     the FEniCS web page: http://www.fenics.org/.

  3. The Python NumPy module

  4. FErari version, version 0.1.0 (optional)

     This is only required to compile with optimization (flag -O).

Anders Logg
logg@simula.no
