There is a limitation in Windows builds using VS2019 where libraries cannot be
bigger than 4GiB. This is normally not an issue but in `VTKm` due to its strong
template usage libraries can reach that size.
The `VTKm` filter library is can easily reach that size and it will halt the
build
This MR tries to avoid reaching those sizes for now by splitting the filter
library into four smaller libraries.
The proposal scheme is:
It splits vtkm-filter into:
- vtkm-common, Classes that are dependencies of other filter libs.
- vtkm-contour, Contour class and its instantiations.
- vtkm-contour, Gradient class and its instantiations.
- vtkm-extra, Classes other than Contour or Gradient that are
not dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Vicente Adolfo Bolea Sanchez <vicente.bolea@kitware.com>
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.
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 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`.
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.
Change the VTKM_CONT_EXPORT to VTKM_CONT. (Likewise for EXEC and
EXEC_CONT.) Remove the inline from these macros so that they can be
applied to everything, including implementations in a library.
Because inline is not declared in these modifies, you have to add the
keyword to functions and methods where the implementation is not inlined
in the class.
VTK-m style guidelines dictate that all classes part of the API should
be in their own header file. Thus, we have moved the result classes out
of the filter header files and into their own headers.
We have also renamed these clases to ResultField and ResultDataSet to
better match the class naming conventions of VTK-m.
Since we are moving around these result classes, we have also revamped
their structure. They are now in a hierarchy with a common ResultBase
class. Additionally, all result classes have a reference to a complete
DataSet that can be considered the output of the filter. This will make
it easier for users to consistently deal with filter results.
These changes cover issues #60 and #62.
The base classes for all the filters are named with 'Filter' at the end.
Generally the convention in VTK-m is to place the most general
descriptor (in this case Filter) first, which makes it easier to find
items in ordered lists.
This commit resolves issue #59.
