This mechanism sets up CMake variables that allow a user to select which
modules/libraries to create. Dependencies will be tracked down to ensure
that all of a module's dependencies are also enabled.
The modules are also arranged into groups.
Groups allow you to set the enable flag for a group of modules at once.
Thus, if you have several modules that are likely to be used together,
you can create a group for them.
This can be handy in converting user-friendly CMake options (such as
`VTKm_ENABLE_RENDERING`) to the modules that enable that by pointing to
the appropriate group.
The `ArrayHandleStreaming` class stems from an old research project
experimenting with bringing data from an `ArrayHandle` in parts and
overlapping device transfer and execution. It works, but only in very
limited contexts. Thus, it is not actually used today. Plus, the feature
requires global indexing to be permutated throughout the worklet
dispatching classes of VTK-m for no further reason.
Because it is not really used, there are other more promising approaches
on the horizon, and it makes further scheduling improvements difficult,
we are removing this functionality.
Previously, the `VTKM_ALWAYS_EXPORT` and `VTKM_NEVER_EXPORT` macros
used the gnu-specific `__attribute__` keyword. This change instead
uses the C++11 standard method of using `[[ ]]` as attributes.
Specifically, `__attribute(visibility("---"))` is changed to
`[[gnu::visibility("--")]]`.
The main impetus for this change is that `__attribute__` does not
seem to work with `[[deprecated]]` on GCC compilers. (For sure on
GCC 6. I didn't check all compiler versions.) This change was
recommended from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40886628/deprecated-attribute-visibility-default-in-gcc-6-2
This creates a minor backward incompatibility. We have always meant
for these macros to be used before the return type when used with
a function. However, GCC accepted placing `__attribute__` after
the return type. The C++11 `[[ ]]` cannot be placed there, so
some macros might have to be moved. Still, this was a broken
use that happened to work.
It is very easy to cause ODR violations with DeviceAdapterTagCuda.
If you include that header from a C++ file and a CUDA file inside
the same program we an ODR violation. The reasons is that the C++
versions will say the tag is invalid, and the CUDA will say the
tag is valid.
The solution to this is that any compilation unit that includes
DeviceAdapterTagCuda from a version of VTK-m that has CUDA enabled
must be invoked by the cuda compiler.
Mask objects allow you to specify which output values should be
generated when a worklet is run. That is, the Mask allows you to skip
the invocation of a worklet for any number of outputs.
`vtkm::cont::testing` now initializes with logging enabled and support
for device being passed on the command line, `vtkm::testing` only
enables logging.
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.
Redesigns the TBB and Serial backends and the vtkm::exec::Task concept so that
we can re-use the same launching logic for all Worklets, instead of generating
per worlet code. To keep the performance the same the TilingTask now is past
a range of indices to work on, rather than a single index.
Binary size reduction:
WorkletTests_SERIAL old - 19MB
WorkletTests_SERIAL new - 18MB
WorkletTests_TBB old - 39MB
WorkletTests_TBB new - 18MB
libvtkAcceleratorsVTKm old - 48MB
libvtkAcceleratorsVTKm new - 19MB
