- bugfix for CUDA kernels with variable field sizes
- extended tests for pystencils gpu kernels

- this extension is necessary for more generic boundary treatment
- cells can now be structs, i.e. contain different data types
- instead of having numeric index dimensions, one can use the index per cell to adress struct elements

- use data type class consistently instead of strings (in TypedSymbol, Field and jit module)
- new datatype class is based on numpy types with additional specifier information (const and restrict)
- translation between data type class and other modules (numpy, ctypes)

- getShearRelaxationRate is a free function now -> works also with cumulant methods
- better error message when calling kernels with wrong or too few parameters
- entropic & incompressible is not working by default due to pdf shift -> added NotImplemented exception
- new creation function for 'raw_mrt' where all relaxation rates can be independently specified
- enhanced entropic creation funtion, supports omega output field now

- windows support
- automatic caching and creation of shared library with all generated kernels
- restrict keyword and function prefixes are preprocessor macros now -> easier to generate one code for linux, cuda, windows

- due to unordered containers  the same method could produce different but functionally equivalent code
- this behaviour is bad for caching

-> switched to ordered containers

Michael Kuron authored 8 years ago and Martin Bauer committed 8 years ago

This commit makes the Python code backwards compatible down to Python 2.7. Previously it would only run on Python 3.5 and up.

Problems fixed included:
- `time.perf_counter()` doesn't exist
- all classes need to be new-style
- `functools.lru_cache` doesn't exist
- only the last argument to a function call can be `*`-expanded
- the `nonlocal` keyword doesn't exist
- metaclasses are used with a different syntax
- `yield from` doesn't exist
- `tempdir.TemporaryDirectory` doesn't exist
- iterators need a `next()` method

- check that fixed size kernels are called with arrays of the correct size
- checks that layout of compilation matches runtime layout
- not allowed any more to mix fixed & and variable sized fields in a kernel