A large portion of the VTK-m filters are now compiled into the
vtkm_filter library. These pre-built filters now don't include
the respective hxx file to remove the amount of template
instantiation users do.
To verify that this removal reduces compiler memory ( and maybe time)
I profiled the compiler while it building filter tests in debug mode.
Here is a selection of results:
```
CleanGrid 10.25s => 9.01s, 901MB => 795MB
ExternalFaces 13.40s => 5.96s, 1122MB => 744MB
ExtractStructured 4.69s => 4.75s, 492MB => 492MB
GradientExplicit 22.97s => 5.88s, 1296MB => 740MB
```
The version of `Filter::Execute` that takes a policy as an argument is now
deprecated. Filters are now able to specify their own fields and types,
which is often why you want to customize the policy for an execution. The
other reason is that you are compiling VTK-m into some other source that
uses a particular types of storage. However, there is now a mechanism in
the CMake configuration to allow you to provide a header that customizes
the "default" types used in filters. This is a much more convenient way to
compile filters for specific types.
One thing that filters were not able to do was to customize what cell sets
they allowed using. This allows filters to self-select what types of cell
sets they support (beyond simply just structured or unstructured). To
support this, the lists `SupportedCellSets`, `SupportedStructuredCellSets`,
and `SupportedUnstructuredCellSets` have been added to `Filter`. When you
apply a policy to a cell set, you now have to also provide the filter.
This commit also:
- Removes a corner case not longer used at ArrayPortalGroupVecVariable::get
- Changes doc regarding the number of offset elements in the input
array handler of ConvertNumComponentsToOffsets.
- Updates invokation of make_ArrayGroupVectVariable in multiple files
- Adds its corresponding changelog entry
VTK-m now provides the following filters with the default policy
as part of the vtkm_filter library:
- CellAverage
- CleanGrid
- ClipWithField
- ClipWithImplicitFunction
- Contour
- ExternalFaces
- ExtractStructured
- PointAverage
- Threshold
- VectorMagnitude
By building these as a library we hope to provide faster compile
times for consumers of VTK-m when using common configurations.
Previously, all the ApplyPolicy functions had the same name and used
template resolution to figure out which one to use. This was pretty
clear at first when there was just one for fields and one for cell sets.
But then it grew to several different types, particularly for fields. It
was hard to look at the code and figure out which form of ApplyPolicy
was being used, and compilers were starting to get confused.
Resolve the problem by giving all the methods unique names to make it
clear which one you expect to be called.
By removing the ability to have multiple CellSets in a DataSet
we can simplify the following things:
- Cell Fields now don't require a CellSet name when being constructed
- Filters don't need to manage what the active cellset is
To help provide a better time writing VTK-m filter this streamlines
the CreateResult API to provide a focused set of methods, based on
how CreateResult has been used by existing filters.
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.
Found via `codespell` and `grep`
more typos
includes source typo change and a typo that needs further review
follow-up typos
Follow-up typos
Revert a commit
This commit removes `vtkm::filter::Result`. All methods that used
`vtkm::filter::Result` simply change to use `vtkm::cont::Dataset` instead.
The utility API on `Result` that was used to add fields to the resulting
dataset is now available via `vtkm::filter::internal::CreateResult`.
This avoid accidental conversions from DataSet to Result in return
values. This exposed several issues with filters and their tests. Fixed
those as well.
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.
There was an error in the CleanGrid filter where if the
CompactPointFields flag was off it would still try to compact the point
coordinates. Add an extra check so that the coordinate systems are just
passed when this flag is off.
