Getting the number of components (or the number of flattened components)
from an `ArrayHandle` is usually trivial. However, if the `ArrayHandle` is
special in that the number of components is specified at runtime, then it
becomes much more difficult to determine.
Getting the number of components is most important when extracting
component arrays (or reconstructions using component arrays) with
`UnknownArrayHandle`. Previously, `UnknownArrayHandle` used a hack to get
the number of components, which mostly worked but broke down when wrapping
a runtime array inside another array such as `ArrayHandleView`.
To prevent this issue, the ability to get the number of components has been
added to `ArrayHandle` proper. All `Storage` objects for `ArrayHandle`s now
need a method named `GetNumberOfComponentsFlat`. The implementation of this
method is usually trivial. The `ArrayHandle` template now also provides a
`GetNumberOfComponentsFlat` method that gets this information from the
`Storage`. This provides an easy access point for the `UnknownArrayHandle`
to pull this information.
StorageType is public in vtkm::cont::ArrayHandle, but some subclasses
re-declare it as private. Having it public provides a convenient way to
get the storage type of an ArrayHandle, otherwise it is quite verbose.
Addresses: #314
Previously, the number of buffers held by an `ArrayHandle` had to be
determined statically at compile time by the storage. Most of the time
this is fine. However, there are some exceptions where the number of
buffers need to be selected at runtime. For example, the
`ArrayHandleRecombineVec` does not specify the number of components it
uses, and it needed a hack where it stored buffers in the metadata of
another buffer, which is bad.
This change allows the number of buffers to vary at runtime (at least at
construction). The buffers were already managed in a `std::vector`. It
now no longer forces the vector to be a specific size.
`GetNumberOfBuffers` was removed from the `Storage`. Instead, if the
number of buffers was not specified at construction, an allocation of
size 0 is done to create default buffers.
The biggest change is to the interface of the storage object methods,
which now take `std::vector` instead of pointers to `Buffer` objects.
This adds a little hastle in having to copy subsets of this `vector`
when a storage object has multiple sub-arrays. But it does simplify some
of the templating.
In pretty much any practical circumstance, whenusing `ListAll` or
`ListAny`, you have a list of types on which you run some sort of
predicate on each item in the list to determine whether any or all of
the items match the predicate. To make this easier, add a second
argument to `ListAll` and `ListAny` to provide a predicate that will
automatically be added.
If no predicate is given, then the operation is run directly on the
list. This is implemented by just using an identity operation.
The newer version of `ArrayHandle` no longer supports different types of
portals for different devices. Thus, the `ReadPortalType` and
`WritePortalType` are sufficient for all types of portals across all
devices.
This significantly simplifies supporting execution objects on devices,
and thus this change also includes many changes to various execution
objects to remove their dependence on the device adapter tag.
What was previously declared as `ArrayHandleNewStyle` is now just the
implementation of `ArrayHandle`. The old implementation of `ArrayHandle`
has been moved to `ArrayHandleDeprecated`, and `ArrayHandle`s still
using this implementation must declare `VTKM_ARRAY_HANDLE_DEPRECATED` to
use it.
It should be noted that a break in backward compatibility is introduced.
The implementation class passed to `ArrayHandleDecorator` changed the
specification of `AllocateSourceArrays`. Thus, decorators that were
previously allocatable now no longer will be until that method is
updated to the new form.
After lots of experimenting, it appears that VS 2015 has problems when
you list a variate template argument before a normal template argument
in a specialization of a function, The compiler seems happy when the
variate argument is placed at the end of the template arguments.
The nvcc compiler was having problem resolving a template partial
specialization that contained a template param with its own number
list and another param that depended on that template.
The old version of ExecutionObject (that only takes a device) is still
supported, but you will get a deprecated warning if that is what is
defined.
Supporing this also included sending vtkm::cont::Token through the
vtkm::cont::arg::Transport mechanism, which was a change that propogated
through a lot of code.
When expanding variadic parameter packs in ArrayHandleDecorator
implementations, make sure that the types used are appropriate.
Since std::declval is used to test whether or not a method with
specific arguments exists, it is important that the reference types
are correct to ensure that the detection works as expected.
Portals are always passed to implementation functions as rvalue
references, and array handles are always passed as lvalue refs.
The older Xcode 9 compiler has troubles with ArrayHandleDecorator that
are similar to those of earlier Microsoft and Cuda compilers.
Note that the logic behind the changed compiler check has a lot of
guesswork involved. I noticed this problem on a laptop with Xcode 9
installed. However, even though Xcode uses the clang compiler, it
notoriously does not return the actual clang version. Instead, it
returns some toolchain version that has nothing to do with it. I'm
pretty sure Xcode 9 is using clang version 4 under the covers, but
__clang_major__ reports 9. Oddly, Xcode 10 reports __clang_major__ as 8,
so that's not too much help. So instead, we check for
__apple_build_version__, which returns the Xcode version (sort of) and
that seems a reasonable comparison.
Although I have not tried it, I'm willing to bet that the older clang
outside of Xcode will also have issues. Here is where the real guesswork
takes place since I don't have handy compilers to try. Like I said, I
think the internet claims that Xcode 9 is using clang 4, so also add to
the check any compiler that reports itself clang 4 or below.
The tao ones won't compile otherwise. This should be okay, since these
are all just compile time helpers on host-only functions -- they won't
generate different sized data structures etc if we mix them in the
same build.
