The number of bits in a `BitField` cannot be directly implied from the
size of the buffer (because the buffer gets padded to the nearest sized
word). Thus, the `BitField stored the number of bits in its own
internals.
Unfortunately, that caused issues when passing the `BitField` data
between it and an `ArrayHandleBitField`. If the `ArrayHandleBitField`
resized itself, the `BitField` would not see the new size because it
ignored the new buffer size.
To get around this problem, `BitField` now declares its own
`BufferMetaData` that stores the number of bits. Now, since the number
of bits is stored in the `Buffer` object, it is sufficient to just share
the `Buffer` to synchronize all of the state.
By hard coding the PrepareForDevice to know about all the different VTK-m
devices, we can have a single base class do the execution allocation, and not
have that logic repeated in each child class.
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.
The old templated array transfer mechanism generated a lot of code
that ended up doing a simple, type-agnostic memcpy for most devices.
This patch specialized array handles for basic storage and uses a
fast-path array transfer implementation. This reduces the size of the
vtkm_cont library by 27% on gcc (from 6.2MB to 4.5MB).
