A previous change used the Copy method of DeviceAdapterAlgorithm to
perform the actual copy in the CopyInto method. This works fine, except
that it uses the default device adapter, and the default device adapter
may need to copy the data to the device just to copy it to another
array. Instead, use the serial device adapter, which is guaranteed to
only perform one copy of the data.
I ran into a few minor issues with the constructors to the Field class.
The big change I made was that I removed the Field constructors that
take an example type and create an empty field of that type. The problem
was that the example type was easily confused with some other type that
was supposed to describe an array. This lead to some odd behavior in the
compiler and resulted in errors in unexpected places.
The use case for this constructor is dubious. There were several tests
in the code that would create an empty field, add it to a data set, then
get it back out to pass to the worklet. The code is much simpler if you
just make an ArrayHandle of the right type and use that in the worklet
invoke directly. It is also faster to compile with smaller code because
the type is known statically (whereas it is lost the other way).
The other change was to declare references to ArrayHandle and
DynamicArrayHandle as const. There is nothing in the behavior that
invalidates the const, and it accepts arrays constructed in the
parameter.
This makes is slightly easier to use as you do not actually have to
construct the DataSetBuilder object but just call its static method.
The DataSetBuilderExplicitIterative methods are not static because they
use state of the builder object to create the data.
Add GetCellDimensions to CellSetStructured
There was not an easy way to get the dimensions of cells in a structured
data set. Add a method to get that.
See merge request !323
4153c2c7 Found a few more places where we don't need to return by value.
dd85fc13 Document why we certain classes member variables need to be const ref.
6fb86da8 DynamicArrayHandle Casting methods now holds by const * const.
c1560e2d Perform less unnecessary copies when deducing a worklets parameters.
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Kenneth Moreland <kmorel@sandia.gov>
Merge-request: !320
Change Regular to Uniform
There was an inconsistency in naming classes where axes-aligned grids
with even spacing were sometimes called "uniform" and sometimes called
"regular". Maintain consistency by always calling them uniform.
See merge request !322
There was an inconsistency in naming classes where axes-aligned grids
with even spacing were sometimes called "uniform" and sometimes called
"regular". Maintain consistency by always calling them uniform.
