taichi-dev/taichi v0.5.15

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Highlights:

• Bug fixes
  • Fix CPU SNode reader in debug mode (#887) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
• Examples
  • Add sdf2d.py (#835) (by 彭于斌)
  • Add quadtree.py (#824) (by 彭于斌)
  • Add a Cornell box renderer (#836) (by Ye Kuang)
• Miscellaneous
  • Enhance ti.init and support arch=ti.gpu (#843) (by 彭于斌)
• OpenGL backend
  • Detect driver existence in with_opengl() (#864) (by 彭于斌)
  • Use GLAD as API loader (replace GLEW) (#819) (by 彭于斌)
• IR optimization passes
  • Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
  • Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
  • Algebraic simplification for bitwise operators (#827) (by xumingkuan)
• Refactoring
  • Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)

Full changelog:

• [release] v0.5.15 (#888) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Bug] Fix CPU SNode reader in debug mode (#887) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opengl] Tolerate all errors in with_opengl() (#884) (by 彭于斌)
• [Opt] [Refactor] [Bug] Use state machines for optimization on variables (#859) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] No sync after kernel launch and postpone lower access (#883) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] Fix SNode reading in async mode (#881) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opt] Eliminate assertions with non-zero const conditions (#877) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Reorganize misc files (#876) (by Yuanming Hu)
• revert #769 ti.cfg.gdb_trigger error (#879) (by 彭于斌)
• [cuda] [test] Add TI_DEVICE_MEMORY_GB and TI_DEVICE_MEMORY_FRACTION environment variable (#769) (by 彭于斌)
• [OpenGL] Detect driver existence in with_opengl() (#864) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Avoid unnecessary linking when git commit hash not changed (#871) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [async] [refactor] Fix async engine statement not found error (#874) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [example] Fix pbf2d.py's initialization to use np.float32 (#873) (by Ye Kuang)
• [misc] Avoid mutable defaults in PyTaichi (#870) (by Yuxin Wu)
• [misc] Fix imread not reading properly when image is not equal in height and width (#855) (by 彭于斌)
• [async] Parallel compilation (#863) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [Opt] [Bug] Fix the state of the last store after a loop (#862) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] ti test -na opengl to exclude tests on some archs (#830) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Eliminate useless local stores and atomics (#858) (by xumingkuan)
• [doc] update documention for #843 (#844) (by 彭于斌)
• [Example] add sdf2d.py (#835) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Lower linearize even without advanced optimization (#854) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Split accessor and other kernels in statistics (#853) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] Profiler now supports multiple threads (#852) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opt] Improve optimization for OffsetAndExtractBitsStmt (#851) (by xumingkuan)
• [Bug] [Opt] Fix a bug in local variable optimization (#849) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] Fix duplicate test name in test_tensor_reflection.py (#850) (by xumingkuan)
• [Example] Add quadtree.py (#824) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Avoid printing empty logs (#848) (by xumingkuan)
• [async] Each JIT thread now has its own LLVM context (#845) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [misc] Clear stats in the constructor of Program (by xumingkuan)
• [Misc] Enhance ti.init and support arch=ti.gpu (#843) (by 彭于斌)
• [misc] Add an option to print statistics into files (#841) (by xumingkuan)
• [test] Fix test when advanced_optimization == false (#842) (by xumingkuan)
• [Example] Add a Cornell box renderer (#836) (by Ye Kuang)
• [metal] Increment by thread grid size for the grid-strip loops (#837) (by Ye Kuang)
• [OpenGL] Use GLAD as API loader (replace GLEW) (#819) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] Eliminate WhileControlStmt with non-zero const conditions (by xumingkuan)
• [refactor] Move backend implementations to the backends folder (#818) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [test] Add a test for statement offloading (#826) (by xumingkuan)
• [Opt] Algebraic simplification for bitwise operators (#827) (by xumingkuan)