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.
Now that the dispatcher does its own TryExecute, filters do not need to
do that. This change requires all worklets called by filters to be able
to execute without knowing the device a priori.
This will make it easier to support integrators as an ExecObject.
One side effect is that the integrators and partical advection
are not templated by the type of the field.
Regardless of the type of the field, there is probably little reason to
compute particle advection with less than 64 bit floats to account for
accumulated errors. This will make it easier to use these classes.
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.
