Add an overload of `ArrayCopy` that takes `UnknownArrayHandle`s and
copies them for (almost) any `ArrayHandle` type.
The code uses `CastAndCallWithExtractedArray` to reduce the total number
of copy conditions to about 100, which are all precompiled into the
library. On a debug build on my mac, this creates a .o file of 21MB.
That's not great, but not terrible. Hopefully, this can be used to
consolidate copy implementations elsewhere.
The circular dependency came from UnknownArrayHandle.h needing
VTKmDefaultTypes.h, which needed all the cell set types. Some of those
cell sets used ArrayCopy in templated functions. Changed those functions
to directly deep copy the ArrayHandle.
The `VariantArrayHandle` will soon be deprecated for its replacement of
`UnknownArrayHandle`. Thus, `Field` and related classes should start
using the new `UnknownArrayHandle`.
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.
The new method `ArrayHandle::DeepCopy` had the pattern such that the
data in the `this` array was pushed to the provided destination array.
However, this is the opposite pattern used in the equivalent method in
VTK, which takes the data from the provided array and copies it to
`this` array.
So, swap the pattern to match that of VTK. Also, make the method name
more descriptive by renaming it to `DeepCopyFrom`. Hopefully, users will
read that to mean given the `ArrayHandle`, you copy data from the other
provided `ArrayHandle`.
A recent modification to `ArrayCopy` created a fast path for when
copying arrays of the same type. This fast path just deep copies the
buffers. The issue was that the buffer copy was creating new buffers
instead of updating the existing buffers. The passed in `ArrayHandle`
would get updated to the new buffers, but any other `ArrayHandle`s
sharing those buffers would still have the old versions. That would lead
to unexpected errors in code like this.
```cpp
vtkm::cont::ArrayHandle<T> outArray1;
vtkm::cont::ArrayHandle<T> outArray2 = outArray1;
vtkm::cont::ArrayCopy(inArray, outArray2);
```
If `inArray` was a different type than `outArray2`, then the data for
both `outArray1` and `outArray2` would be updated (which is the expected
behavior for something considered a "pointer"). However, if `inArray`
was the same type as `outArray2`, then the fast path would change
`outArray2` but leave `outArray1` the same.
This behavior has been corrected so that, in this case, the data of
`outArray1` always follows that of `outArray2`.
C++ was not resolving the overloads of `ArrayCopyImpl` as expected,
which was causing `ArrayCopy` to sometimes use a less efficient method
for copying.
Also fix an issue with `Buffer::DeepCopy` that caused a deadlock when
copying a buffer that was not actually allocated anywhere (as well as
failing to copy the metadata, which was probably the whole point).
`ArrayHandle::DeepCopy` creates a new `ArrayHandle` of the same type and
deep copies the data into it.
This functionality is similar to `ArrayCopy`. However, it can be used
without having to compile for the device on which the copy happens.
Now that the data in an `ArrayHandle` is stored in `Buffer` objects, we
now have a more efficient way of doing deep copies of memory. Rather
than call `Algorithm::Copy`, which iterates over the array and copies
each item, `ArrayCopy` now uses the `Buffer` interface to do direct
device-to-device (or host-to-host) mem copies. This should be more
efficent and take less time to compile.
Note that this direct `Buffer` copy only works if the two `ArrayHandle`s
are of the same type. If they are different, `ArrayCopy` still has to
fall back to using `Algorithm::Copy`.
Also note that not all `ArrayHandle`s are using the new `ArrayHandle`
interface (and therefore not using `Buffer` objects). Thus, a fallback
is still available for old `ArrayHandle` types.
`CoordinateSystem` differed from `Field` in that its `GetData`
method returned an `ArrayHandleVirtualCoordinates` instead of
a `VariantArrayHandle`. This is probably confusing since
`CoordianteSystem` inherits `Field` and has a pretty dramatic
difference in this behavior.
In preparation to deprecate `ArrayHandleVirtualCoordinates`, this
changes `CoordiantSystem` to be much more like `Field`. (In the
future, we may change the `CoordinateSystem` to point to a `Field`
rather than be a special `Field`.)
A method named `GetDataAsMultiplexer` has been added to
`CoordinateSystem`. This method allows you to get data from
`CoordinateSystem` as a single array type without worrying
about creating functors to handle different types and without
needing virtual methods.
This is still more convenient than declaring DeviceAdapterAlgorithm just
to copy two arrays. Now the function works whether or not you know what
the device should be.
This is a convenience method to do a deep copy of an array. This comes
up a lot, but can be a pain if you don't have a specific device adapter
on which to do the copy.
