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.
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.
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
Previously WorkletInvokeFunctor inherited from vtkm::exec::FunctorBase,
which is also the base class for all users Worklets and for all functors
based to DeviceAdapter::Schedule.
This is done for a few reasons. The first is that we reduce the
minimum size of user worklets. Previously the users worklet would hold
a reference to the error message, and so would the wrapper class added
when calling DeviceAdapter::Schedule. Now we only have the users worklet
holding a reference.
Second, by refactoring to have two base classes we can better improve
the documentation on what responsibilities FunctorBase.h has, compared
to TaskBase.
