- loop cutting
- simplification of conditionals inside loop

- support for logical operators, and/or
- both phase field kernels can be vectorized now

- phasefield phi sweep vectorizes successfully

- activated vectorization for LBM kernels

- renaming because of clashes with types.py from other packages

- sympys piecewise defined functions are mapped to blend instructions
- cast function is now a class
- several bugfixes

- first vectorization tests are running
- type system: use memoized getTypeOfExpression
- casts are done using sp.Function('cast')
- C backend adapted for vectorization support
- AST nodes can required optional headers

- abstraction layer for selecting CUDA block and grid sizes
  - line based (was implemented before)
  - block based (new, more flexible)
-  new conditional (if/else) ast node, which is necessary for indexing schemes (guarding if)

- 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)

- 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

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

and not as a string.
Changed name of the file TypedSymbol to types.
Fixed usage of dtype accordingly, however i might not have found every
usage of dtype.

problem in moveConstantBeforeLoops transformation:

--> a should end up here
{
for() {
  const int a = 5;
}
for() {
  const int a = 5
}
}

the "a" of the lower loop was not moved up, since it could not move across first loop (which is wrong)

- LoopOverDomain changed to be able to loop over rectangular sub-region of field
- support for slicing with makeSlice

- added sphinx files for documentation generation
- collected kernel creation functions in new "cpu" and "cudagpu" modules