taichi-dev/taichi v0.6.4

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Highlights:

• Bug fixes
  • Fix floordiv overflow when lhs * rhs is large (#970) (by 彭于斌)
• Language and syntax
  • Refactor SNode and support coordinate offsets (#945) (by Yuanming Hu)
• Metal backend
  • Skip allocating Runtime::ListManager if no sparse SNode is used (#976) (by Ye Kuang)

Full changelog:

• [release] v0.6.4 (by Yuanming Hu)
• [doc] Minor updates in hello.rst (#963) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [doc] Improve hello.rst (#972) (by Xiao Zhai)
• [misc] Add a link to taichi_elements in README.md (#974) (by 彭于斌)
• [Bug] [opengl] [llvm] [metal] Fix floordiv overflow when lhs * rhs is large (#970) (by 彭于斌)
• [test] Size Performance Regression Tests (SPRT) (#959) (by 彭于斌)
• [Metal] Skip allocating Runtime::ListManager if no sparse SNode is used (#976) (by Ye Kuang)
• [cuda] Improve kernel return value performance when unified memory is available (#965) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [doc] Update syntax.rst and related sections (#967) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [opengl] add TI_WITH_OPENGL env var to disable OpenGL (#962) (by 彭于斌)
• [opt] [cuda] Fix constant folding in multithreaded CUDA applications (#954) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [ir][refactor] Avoid throwing exception in replace_statements_with (#968) (by xumingkuan)
• [opengl] Use compile_to_offloads for IR lowering (#951) (by 彭于斌)
• [Doc] fix typo in syntax_sugars.po (#960) (by Danni)
• [refactor][ir] Simplify ir.h to reduce compile-time (#934) (by 彭于斌)
• [lang] [refactor] deprecate @boardcast_if_scalar, all use @binary and @unary (#943) (by 彭于斌)
• [doc] Improve hello.rst (#955) (by Yuanming Hu)
• [metal] Set labels on the command buffer/encoder (#950) (by Ye Kuang)
• [ir] Remove BasicStmtVisitor::current_struct_for (#952) (by xumingkuan)
• [misc] README.md use shields.io to show latest release (#947) (by 彭于斌)
• [Lang][IR][refactor] Refactor SNode and support coordinate offsets (#945) (by Yuanming Hu)