Useful tips - firedrakeproject/firedrake GitHub Wiki

Editor customisation

• Configuring Eclipse
• Using Firedrake with Docker and VSCode

Debugging

• Debugging C kernels with lldb on MacOS
• Parallel MPI Debugging with tmux-mpi, pdb and gdb
• Parallel MPI Debugging with VSCode and debugpy
• Modifying generated code
• Kernel profiling with LIKWID
• breakpoint() builtin not working
• Debugging pytest with multiple processing

Developing Firedrake

• Running Firedrake tests with different subpackage branches
• Modifying and Rebuilding PETSc and petsc4py
• Vectorisation