taichi-dev/taichi 0.5.9

v0.5.9

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Notable changes:

• (Mar 28, 2020) v0.5.9 released
  • CPU & CUDA backends
    • Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Documentation
    • Updated contributor guideline (#658) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Infrastructure
    • 6x faster compilation on CPU/CUDA backends (#673) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Language and syntax
    • Simplify dense.bitmasked to bitmasked (#670) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Support break in non-parallel for statements (#583) (by 彭于斌)
  • Metal backend
    • Enable bitmasked on Metal (#661) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Silence compile warnings (#650) (by Ye Kuang)
  • Optimization
    • Improved Taichi IR optimizers (#662) (#668) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [misc] misc/make_changelog.py for automatically generating changelogs (#679) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Simplify Metal backend's namings (#675) (by Ye Kuang)
• [CPU][CUDA] Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Infra] 6x faster compilation on CPU backends (#673) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Improve format server stability (#672) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir] Basic function definition/call instructions (#612) (by 彭于斌)
• [Lang] Simplify dense.bitmasked to bitmasked (#670) (by Ye Kuang)
• [misc] Fixed format server file coverage (#669) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] Merge adjacent if's with identical conditions (#668) (by xumingkuan)
• [metal] Move platform/metal to backends/metal (#667) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Added irpass::gather_statements (#665) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] Dive into container statements to find local loads/stores for optimization, and optimize loads of new allocas to 0 (#662) (by xumingkuan)
• [Metal] Changes to enable bitmasked on Metal! (#661) (by Ye Kuang)
• [Doc] Updated contributor guideline (#658) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Introduced a temporary boolean constant for benchmarking advanced optimizations (#657) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] v0.5.8 README (#654) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Fixed MGPCG (#652) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Refactor ASTTransformer.visit_For and fix a bug on grouped ndrange loops (#648) (by xumingkuan)
• [Metal] Silence compile warning with [[maybe_unused]] (#650) (by Ye Kuang)
• add LineAppender for OpenGL too #643 (#651) (by 彭于斌)
• Support break in non-parallel for statements by translate range-for into while #578 (#583) (by 彭于斌)
• [Metal] Add bitmasked support in MetalRuntime (#638) (by Ye Kuang)