- small (length < 5) arrays with shape and stride information had to be
  memcpy'd to the GPU before every kernel call
- instead of passing the information as arrays, the single elements are
  passed
- leads to more function arguments, but simplifies GPU kernel calls

-> changes in all backends required

- uses ast instead of text-based editing
- can handle Piecewise defined functions
- new decorator for simplified usage

- removed warnings
- added flake8 as CI target

- test run again
- notebooks not yet

- assignment collection
- sympyextensions

- Previously sympy.Eq was used to represent assignments. However Eq
  represents equality not assignment. This means that sometimes sympy
  "simplified" an equation like a = a  to True,
-> replaced sp.Eq by pystencils.Assignment everywhere
- renamed EquationCollection to AssignmentCollection

- shortened the longest running tests, moved some configurations
  to longrun

- splitted existing LBM boundary handling into two parts:
    -> generic part , that is used for FD as well and moved it to pystencils
    -> LBM specific part - remained in lbmpy

- bugfixes

- loop cutting
- simplification of conditionals inside loop

- 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