Remove LazyArrays.jl dependency

[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Summary

This PR removes the LazyArrays.jl dependency from LinearSolve.jl, simplifying the codebase as suggested.

Changes

• Removed LazyArrays from Project.toml dependencies (both main dependency and compat entry)
• Replaced BroadcastArray(@~ .-(λ .* tu)) with simple broadcast .-(λ .* tu) in src/adjoint.jl:87
• Removed LazyArrays import from src/LinearSolve.jl
• Updated tests in test/adjoint.jl to check for AbstractMatrix instead of BroadcastArray
• Removed LazyArrays import from test file

Rationale

The LazyArrays dependency was only used in one place (src/adjoint.jl:87) to create a lazy broadcast array. The regular Julia broadcast operation is sufficient for this use case and doesn't require the additional dependency. This simplification reduces the dependency footprint of the package without any loss of functionality.

Test Results

All adjoint tests pass successfully with the simplified implementation.

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[ChrisRackauckas]

@avik-pal I assume this is overkill if Reactant is used? Because it brings in some unwanted dependencies so we kind of need to get rid of it.

[ChrisRackauckas]

Or we can make it an extension if it's a very important optimization that isn't covered by Reactant.

[avik-pal]

@ChrisRackauckas can you remind me what particular optimization this was added for? If it was for determining matrix multiplication ordering, that doesn't exist in EnzymeJAX but also like a 1 hr thing to add (atleast the greedy version).

[ChrisRackauckas]

You added it 😅. I think it was to batch backwards passes, so instead of triangular solve on vectors it would batch it to triangular solve back a matrix.

[avik-pal]

It was fa0cd34 (not me)

From discourse it seems to be the gemm ordering (I have a half finished PR for this in reactant).

[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Updates to fix CI

This PR has been updated to:

1. Merged main branch - The PR was quite old and main had many new commits (including a new mooncake.jl test file that imported LazyArrays)

2. Removed stale LazyArrays import from mooncake.jl - The new test/nopre/mooncake.jl file that was added to main had a stale using LazyArrays: BroadcastArray import that was never used in the file. This was causing test failures since LazyArrays is being removed as a dependency.

All tests pass locally. Waiting for CI to confirm.

cc @ChrisRackauckas

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[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

Additional fix

Found an additional issue: the ext/LinearSolveMooncakeExt.jl extension also used LazyArrays for BroadcastArray in the solve! adjoint rule. Updated it to use regular broadcast like the main adjoint code.

The fix is pushed and Mooncake tests pass locally now.

cc @ChrisRackauckas

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[ChrisRackauckas-Claude]

CI Status Summary

All LinearSolve.jl tests pass ✅:

• Core, NoPre, DefaultsLoading, LinearSolveAutotune, LinearSolveHYPRE, LinearSolvePardiso, Preferences, Trim - all pass on all platforms

Downstream tests:

• NonlinearSolve.jl - ✅ Pass
• OrdinaryDiffEq.jl - ✅ Pass
• SciMLSensitivity.jl - ✅ Pass
• BoundaryValueDiffEq.jl - ❌ Fail (likely unrelated to this PR)
• ModelingToolkit.jl - ❌ Fail (likely unrelated to this PR)

Expected failures:

• Format Check - This PR doesn't run formatters per instructions

The BoundaryValueDiffEq and ModelingToolkit failures appear to be pre-existing issues with those downstream packages, not related to the LazyArrays removal. All core LinearSolve.jl functionality is working correctly.

Ready for review.

cc @ChrisRackauckas

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