VecMem Beta 0.22.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.21.0:

• Added explicit support for building the project with hipSYCL;
  • At the same time made the build system a little more robust, and updated the list of platforms tested in the CI;
• Made all "data owning" types default constructible;
• Implemented a consistent set of constructor, assignment operators and comparison operators for all of the view types;
• Introduced the VECMEM_FAIL_ON_WARNINGS flag to control whether -Werror (or an equivalent compiler flag) should be used in the build;
• Introduced an asynchronous interface for vecmem::copy, updated all existing copy types to this asynchronous interface, and introduced vecmem::sycl::async_copy to support asynchronous copies with SYCL;
• Made all functions on vecmem::copy const.

VecMem Beta 0.21.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.20.0:

• Removed the custom vecmem::sycl::device_selector class in order to make the project compatible with SYCL2020 v5.

VecMem Beta 0.20.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.19.0:

• Adjusted the output levels of many debugging messages a bit, with the goal of making the more relevant messages appear at lover levels;
• Switched to exporting the value used for VECMEM_DEBUG_MSG_LVL during the build of this project to the project's clients as well, to make things a bit more consistent for the clients;
• Made it possible to copy data from resizable jagged vector buffers, which have not been "fully filled";
• Changed the logic for the jagged vector copies on the whole, hopefully making it more robust.

VecMem Beta 0.19.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.18.0:

• Introduced the VECMEM_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS configuration flag for controlling whether all externals should be taken from the system, or be built by VecMem by default;
  • Individual choices through the previously existing configuration variables is still possible, and the default build behaviour didn't change;
• Made it possible to correctly handle jagged vector buffers (in all situations) through the vecmem::data::jagged_vector_view interface;
  • Eliminating the need in client code to declare separate interfaces for receiving either a view or a buffer object.

VecMem Beta 0.18.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.17.0:

• Made vecmem::host_memory_resource provide correctly aligned memory blocks to its caller;
• Made the SYCL memory resources handle allocation errors more like what the C++ standard requires;
• Made the build happy with CMake >=3.24.

VecMem Beta 0.17.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.16.0:

• Made the SYCL memory resources use the aligned memory allocators introduced with SYCL2020;
• Fixed multiple issues in vecmem::binary_page_memory_resource, and added more debug messages and assertions into the code for detecting problems more easily in the future.

VecMem Beta 0.16.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.15.0:

• Made vecmem::contiguous_memory_resource provide memory allocations with the requested/correct alignment;
• Made the internals of vecmem::binary_page_memory_resource more performant;
  • Adding benchmarks for the behaviour of the memory resource along the way;
• Made it possible to build/use the code (without warnings) on even more platforms.

VecMem Beta 0.15.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.14.0:

• Introduced GPU CI tests on a private runner, which would run under some very specific circumstances;
• Added a virtual destructor to vecmem::copy to make it possible to manage "copy objects" in memory through their base pointer;
• Updated vecmem::copy to coalesce jagged vectors in host memory before doing H->D or D->H copies, minimising the number of H->D and D->H copies on the expense of extra H->H copies (and an additional host memory allocation).

VecMem Beta 0.14.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.13.0:

• Introduced vecmem::copy::memset(...) functions. Meant for explicitly initialising data in device memory (buffers).

VecMem Beta 0.13.0

Release including the following update(s) since v0.12.0:

• Upgraded the CI to make tests with CUDA/HIP + SYCL builds;
• Improved the semantics of VecMem's unique pointers;
• Fixed a bug with the handling of jagged vector buffers;
• Some minor include and printout updates/fixes.