taichi-dev/taichi 0.5.8

v0.5.8

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Changes that are visible to users:

• [Lang] Access out-of-bound checking on CPU backends (#572) (by xumingkuan)
• [Lang] Testable device-side assertion failures on CPUs (#605) (by xumingkuan)
• [Lang] Added Expr.copy_from (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Lang] Added ti.Vector.unit to generate unit vectors (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Lang] Use a = ti.static(a_very_long_variable) for easy aliasing [doc] (#587) (by 彭于斌 and KLozes)
• [DiffTaichi] Experimental support for automatically differentiating through conditional global load/stores (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Lang] Added ti.atomic_min, ti.atomic_max, ti.atomic_bit_or, ti.atomic_bit_and, ti.atomic_bit_xor (CPU and CUDA by KLozes, OpenGL by 彭于斌, Metal by Ye Kuang)
• [Bugfix] Fixed stack traceback printing on OS X (#610) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [CLI] ti format now cover all files from upstream/master to the working tree (#629) (by Ye Kuang)
• [CLI] ti test now uses argparse for better customizability (#601) (by 彭于斌)
• [Backend] OpenGL Compute Shader backend will officially release very soon with v0.6! (by 彭于斌)
• [Backend] Metal backend sparsity support work in progress (by Ye Kuang)
• [Example] Added examples/mgpcg.py (#573) (by KLozes)
• [Example] Added examples/sdf_renderer.py (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Example] Added examples/mgpcg_advanced.py (#573) (by Yuanming Hu)

All changes:

• Postponed demote_dense_struct_for on x86 and CUDA (#649) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Add LineAppender to dedupe code emitting methods (#643) (by Ye Kuang)
• Simplify init in mgpcg_advanced.py (#645) (by xumingkuan)
• New extension 'adstack' (#646) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Mutable local variable autodiff (#640) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Change Jenkins repo URL to taichi-dev (#644) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Fix Jenkinsfile after testing CLI update (#642) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Fixed 'ti format' crashing on deleted files (#641) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Support atomic min/max/bit_and/bit_or/bit_xor on Metal (#632) (by Ye Kuang)
• Add atomic_bit_or/xor/and for OpenGL (#634) (by 彭于斌)
• [Metal] Add runtime support in Metal codegen (#626) (by Ye Kuang)
• Fixed ASTTransformer.visit_For on static ndrange loops (#630) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Add atomic min/max/bit_and/bit_or/bit_xor (#627) (by KLozes)
• For Loops with Grouped NDRange (#625) (by xumingkuan)
• Make ti format cover all files from upstream/master to the working tree (#629) (by Ye Kuang)
• Removed ClearAllStmt (#624) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Refactor type system: added pointer, i1->u1, created data_type.inc.h (#623) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Link to format server in PR template (#619) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Format server index page (#618) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Reformat everything (#617) (by Taichi Gardener)
• Improved ti format (#616) (by Yuanming Hu)
• IR extension for mutable local variable history and autodiff (#608) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Added syntax sugar doc for static assignment (#585) (by KLozes)
• Use argparse for ti test in taichi/main.py to implement #600 (#601) (by 彭于斌)
• [Metal] Add Runtime shaders to support sparse SNode (#614) (by Ye Kuang)
• throw UnboundLocalError when accessing loop variables outside static for loops (#613) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Testable Device-Side Assertion Failures on CPUs (#605) (by xumingkuan)
• [Metal] Move Metal shader code to shaders/ folder (#611) (by Ye Kuang)
• fixed print_traceback overflow on OS X (#610) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Simplified GlobalPtrStmt and improved its CSE optimization (#599) (by Yuanming Hu)
• OpenGL backend (stage 2.2.2) (#545) (by 彭于斌)
• Removed unused fields of SNode (#598) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Fixed non-OpenGL build (#596) (by Yuanming Hu)
• OpenGL backend minor fixes (stage 2.2.1) (#595) (by 彭于斌)
• OpenGL external array access (stage 2.1.2) (#586) (by 彭于斌)
• OpenGL range_for support (stage 2.1.1) (#594) (by 彭于斌)
• Fix travis (#589) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Format server script (#588) (by Yuanming Hu)
• add static ptr assignment for funcs too (#587) (by KLozes)
• Temporary global variable aliasing within kernels #574 (#575) (by 彭于斌)
• make mgpcg_advanced.py more dimensionality-independent (by Yuanming Hu)
• allow passing ti.Expr/Matrix to ti.func (by Yuanming Hu)
• ti.Vector.unit (by Yuanming Hu)
• added a more advanced MGPCG exmaple (by Yuanming Hu)
• Access out-of-bound checking on CPU backends (Stage 2) (#582) (by xumingkuan)
• use array of scalars instead of ti.Vector in mgpcg.py (by Yuanming Hu)
• simplified mgpcg example; multigrid switch (by Yuanming Hu)
• simplify mgpcg with more templates (by Yuanming Hu)
• reformat example/mgpcg.py (#584) (by Taichi Gardener)
• mark side effects for GloatPtrStmt with activation (by Yuanming Hu)
• Avoid error message formatting for valid accesses (#579) (by xumingkuan)
• [feature] Access out-of-bound checking on CPU backends (#572), stage 1 (by xumingkuan)
• [bugfix] fixed type demotion behavior (by Yuanming Hu)
• simplified examples/mgpcg.py by leveraging new language features (by Yuanming Hu)
• add mgpcg example (#573) (by KLozes)
• comments to examples/particle_renderer.py (by Yuanming Hu)
• Expr.copy_from (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Refactor] hide MetalStructCompiler to the cpp file (#569) (by Ye Kuang)
• [Metal] Decouple Metal's runtime from LLVM memory (#568) (by Ye Kuang)
• Add assertions to prevent infinite loop in least_pot_bound in case of negative snode size (#567) (by xumingkuan)