Most of this code is not templated methods. Rather, it implements over
several types to call templated functions, which creates quite a bit of
code. Rather than have all code using a reader recompile the code, just
compile it once and put it in a library.
Consumers of VTK-m when enabling of dropping of unused functions
will see VTK-m functions dropped. Previously this didn't happen
as VTK-m didn't build object files with the correct flags for this.
By allowing the linker to remove unused symbols we see a significant
saving the file size of VTK-m tests, examples, and benchmarks.
An OpenMP build of the tests and benchmarks goes from 168MB to
141MB which is roughly a 16% filesize reduction.
Initially I had presumed that these changes would increase link times.
But in measurements the total wall time for compilation of VTK-m has
stayed about the same ( seeing a decrease of 1.5% ). Presumably the
increased computation is offset by the reduction in file writing.
This is a library that contains parts of worklets that can be
precompiled into a library.
Currently, this library contains the implementation of ScatterCounting.
CMake 3.12 introduces a ...<max> syntax in the version given to
cmake_minimum_required to automatically set policies to NEW up
to that version. Use it to avoid listing policies explicitly.
