Within each function that launches tasks, we now can easily track which
tasks that function launched, so that the sync at the end of the function
can just sync on the tasks launched by that function (not all tasks
launched by all functions.)
Implementing this led to a rework of the task system API that ispc generates
code to call; the example task systems in examples/tasksys.cpp have been
updated to conform to this API. (The updated API is also documented in
the ispc user's guide.)
As part of this, "launch[n]" syntax was added to launch a number of tasks
in a single launch statement, rather than requiring a loop over 'n' to
launch n tasks.
This commit thus fixes issue #84 (enhancement to launch multiple tasks from
a single launch statement) as well as issue #105 (recursive task launches
were broken).
Old run_tests.sh still lives (for now).
Changes include:
- Tests are run in parallel across all of the available CPU cores
- Option to create a statically-linked executable for each test
(rather than using the LLVM JIT). This is in particular useful
for AVX, which doesn't have good JIT support yet.
- Static executables also makes it possible to test x86, not
just x86-64, codegen.
- Fixed a number of tests in failing_tests, which were actually
failing due to the fact that the expected function signature of
tests had changed.
If no CPU is specified, use the host CPU type, not just a default of "nehalem".
Provide better features strings to the LLVM target machinery.
-> Thus ensuring that LLVM doesn't generate SSE>2 instructions for the SSE2
target (Fixes issue #82).
-> Slight code improvements from using cmovs in generated code now
Use the llvm popcnt intrinsic for the SSE2 target now (it now generates code
that doesn't call the popcnt instruction now that we properly tell LLVM
which instructions are and aren't available for SSE2.)
Fixes bug #55. A number of tests were crashing on Windows due to the task
launch code using alloca to allocate space for the tasks' parameters. On
Windows, the stack isn't generally big enough for this to be a good idea.
Also added an alignment parmaeter to ISPCMalloc() to pass the alignment
requirement along.
