Initial commit of Ceres Solver.
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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
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+//
+// Author: sameeragarwal@google.com (Sameer Agarwal)
+
+#include "ceres/block_structure.h"
+#include "ceres/matrix_proto.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+bool CellLessThan(const Cell& lhs, const Cell& rhs) {
+  return (lhs.block_id < rhs.block_id);
+}
+
+#ifndef CERES_DONT_HAVE_PROTOCOL_BUFFERS
+void ProtoToBlockStructure(const BlockStructureProto &proto,
+                           CompressedRowBlockStructure *block_structure) {
+  // Decode the column blocks.
+  block_structure->cols.resize(proto.cols_size());
+  for (int i = 0; i < proto.cols_size(); ++i) {
+    block_structure->cols[i].size = proto.cols(i).size();
+    block_structure->cols[i].position =
+        proto.cols(i).position();
+  }
+  // Decode the row structure.
+  block_structure->rows.resize(proto.rows_size());
+  for (int i = 0; i < proto.rows_size(); ++i) {
+    const CompressedRowProto &row = proto.rows(i);
+    block_structure->rows[i].block.size = row.block().size();
+    block_structure->rows[i].block.position = row.block().position();
+
+    // Copy the cells within the row.
+    block_structure->rows[i].cells.resize(row.cells_size());
+    for (int j = 0; j < row.cells_size(); ++j) {
+      const CellProto &cell = row.cells(j);
+      block_structure->rows[i].cells[j].block_id = cell.block_id();
+      block_structure->rows[i].cells[j].position = cell.position();
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void BlockStructureToProto(const CompressedRowBlockStructure &block_structure,
+                           BlockStructureProto *proto) {
+  // Encode the column blocks.
+  for (int i = 0; i < block_structure.cols.size(); ++i) {
+    BlockProto *block = proto->add_cols();
+    block->set_size(block_structure.cols[i].size);
+    block->set_position(block_structure.cols[i].position);
+  }
+  // Encode the row structure.
+  for (int i = 0; i < block_structure.rows.size(); ++i) {
+    CompressedRowProto *row = proto->add_rows();
+    BlockProto *block = row->mutable_block();
+    block->set_size(block_structure.rows[i].block.size);
+    block->set_position(block_structure.rows[i].block.position);
+    for (int j = 0; j < block_structure.rows[i].cells.size(); ++j) {
+      CellProto *cell = row->add_cells();
+      cell->set_block_id(block_structure.rows[i].cells[j].block_id);
+      cell->set_position(block_structure.rows[i].cells[j].position);
+    }
+  }
+}
+#endif
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres