sion for most modern
computers, which is a limitation of the direct solver as well.</p>
<p>Not all metrics in samc depend on linear solvers; of the short-term
metrics, only <code><a href="../reference/dispersal.html">dispersal()</a></code> will be affected by the choice of
solver.</p>
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<p>The short-term metrics (functions where a number of time steps is