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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: keir@google.com (Keir Mierle)
+//
+// A jacobian writer that directly writes to compressed row sparse matrices.
+
+#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_ROW_JACOBIAN_WRITER_H_
+#define CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_ROW_JACOBIAN_WRITER_H_
+
+#include "ceres/evaluator.h"
+#include "ceres/scratch_evaluate_preparer.h"
+
+namespace ceres {
+namespace internal {
+
+class Program;
+class SparseMatrix;
+
+class CompressedRowJacobianWriter {
+ public:
+  CompressedRowJacobianWriter(Evaluator::Options /* ignored */,
+                              Program* program)
+    : program_(program) {
+  }
+
+  // JacobianWriter interface.
+
+  // Since the compressed row matrix has different layout than that assumed by
+  // the cost functions, use scratch space to store the jacobians temporarily
+  // then copy them over to the larger jacobian in the Write() function.
+  ScratchEvaluatePreparer* CreateEvaluatePreparers(int num_threads) {
+    return ScratchEvaluatePreparer::Create(*program_, num_threads);
+  }
+
+  SparseMatrix* CreateJacobian() const;
+
+  void Write(int residual_id,
+             int residual_offset,
+             double **jacobians,
+             SparseMatrix* base_jacobian);
+
+ private:
+  Program* program_;
+};
+
+}  // namespace internal
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_COMPRESSED_ROW_JACOBIAN_WRITER_H_