Highlights:
- Language and syntax
- Rename "ti.cache_shared" to "ti.block_local" (#2030) (by Zhiya Luo, welcome!)
Full changelog:
- [opt] Algebraic simplification for sar/shl/shr (#2031) (by xumingkuan)
- [type] Support bit-level read and write in Python-scope (#2029) (by Jiafeng Liu)
- [Lang] [refactor] Rename "ti.cache_shared" to "ti.block_local" (#2030) (by Zhiya Luo)
- [type] Refactor bit pointers (#2028) (by Yuanming Hu)
- [async] Use loop-unique info for fusion (#2012) (by xumingkuan)
- [ir] [opt] Demote BitExtractStmt into a series of binary operations for optimization (#1795) (by 彭于斌)
- [misc] Fix Type* ownership in Python-scope (#2026) (by Yuanming Hu)
- [example] Interpolate vertices for mciso_advanced.py to make it smoother (#1991) (by 彭于斌)
- [opengl] [refactor] Move rand_state from runtime to gtmp to reduce SSBO numbers (#2021) (by 彭于斌)
- [type] Add BitArrayType and corresponding SNodes (#2017) (by Xuanda Yang)
- [opengl] [refactor] Reduce SSBO numbers: merge earg with args (#2020) (by 彭于斌)
- [misc] Add clear_profile_info() (#2018) (by Ye Kuang)
- [opengl] [perf] Grid-stride loop for all type of loops (#2016) (by 彭于斌)
- [metal] Support pointer SNode in codegen (#2015) (by Ye Kuang)
- [async] Support activation demotion in "if" statements (#2009) (by Yuanming Hu)