With the major revision 2.0 of VTK-m, many items previously marked as
deprecated were removed. If updating to a new version of VTK-m, it is
recommended to first update to VTK-m 1.9, which will include the deprecated
features but provide warnings (with the right compiler) that will point to
the replacement code. Once the deprecations have been fixed, updating to
2.0 should be smoother.
Marked the old versions of PrepareFor* that do not use tokens as
deprecated and moved all of the code to use the new versions that
require a token. This makes the scope of the execution object more
explicit so that it will be kept while in use and can potentially be
reclaimed afterward.
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.
The original design of invoke and the transport infrastructure
relied on the implementation behavior of vtkm::cont types
such as ArrayHandle that used an internal shared_ptr to managed
state. This allowed passing by value instead of passing by
non-const ref when needing to transfer information to the device.
As VTK-m adds support for classes that use virtuals the ability
to pass by base pointer type allows for us to invoke worklets
using a base type without the risk of type slicing.
Additional by moving over to a non-const ref Invocation we
can update all transports that have 'output' to now be
by ref and therefore support types that can't be copied while
being 'more' correct.
Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.
Previously the arguments to the operator of a vtkm::cont::arg::Transport
were the control object, the input domain object, and the output range.
If you wanted to, for example, check the size of an input array to make
sure it matched the input range, you would have to know the meaning of
the input domain object to query its range. This made it hard to create
generic transports, like TransportTagArrayIn, that accept data from
multiple different input domains but need to know the input range.
Previously, the operator for a Transport class took the object being
transported to the execution environment and the size of the output
domain. This change also passes in the control-side argument for the
input domain. This will help check input array sizes as well as make
other potential transformations based on the input domain.
Change the VTKM_CONT_EXPORT to VTKM_CONT. (Likewise for EXEC and
EXEC_CONT.) Remove the inline from these macros so that they can be
applied to everything, including implementations in a library.
Because inline is not declared in these modifies, you have to add the
keyword to functions and methods where the implementation is not inlined
in the class.
Previously, all arrays passed to worklets were designated as either
input or output. No in-place operation was permitted. This change adds
the FieldInOut tag for ControlSignature in both WorkletMapField and
WorkletMapTopology that allows you to read and write from the same
array.
