OpenMDAO/OpenMDAO-Framework — pull request #1751 by Kenneth-T-Moore (2014-05-15 16:34:29+00:00)
Title: Directional Finite Difference and fixes

1. Support for using a directional finite difference during a GMRES solve. This can speed up calculation in some cases.
2. Performance improvement: don't run a component's apply_deriv or provideJ if the incoming GMRES arg vector for that component is all zeros.
3. Fix for missing implicit edges when asking for the Jacobian of a subdriver that contains a subsolver.
4. User can now specify blocks of components to be finite differenced together.
5. The finite difference code has been moved to its own file.