bjoernknafla (Bjoern Knafla)

First draft of a thread group and unit tests for it added.

Backup commit, need to stop working for today. Amidst working on compute groups and compute engines and started to move the concept of having groups of threads into amp so I can reuse that functionality in peak.

Compute group tests are running again. Added dummy allocator and deallocators for the tests and each engine has a set of default and node allocators and deallocators now.

First experimental code and test for a simple compute function and simplte compute engine.

Removed non-used experimental code.

Refined the markdown text markup of the README file.

POC now tries to detect if the compiler supports long long types even if the language standard doesn't support them. POC_FORCE_LANG_C_TYPE_LONG_LONG_SUPPORT and POC_FORCE_LANG_CPP_TYPE_LONG_LONG_SUPPORT preprocessor symbols can be defined to force use of long long by POC (for example to define POC_INTMAX). POC_FORCE_LANG_C_STD_COMPLIANCE and POC_FORCE_LANG_CPP_STD_COMPLIANCE can be defined to surpress unwanted usage of long long extensions by POC. In addition the README.txt file got converted to markdown and renamed to README.markdown to show up formatted in github's project first page.

Recreated the MS Visual Studio solution for poc again. poc compiles on 32bit WindowsXP again. Changed the doxygen config to not include the diagnose code into the generated documentation.

Added detection of LLVM and Clang compiler backend and frontend. Backup commit. Windows doesn't work yet. Current plan is to first add platform and compiler dependend SIMD extension detection and then get the Windows VC2008 project to work again.

Added working signed- and unsigned-unit tests for primary types.

Added unit tests to the diagnose app to check the size and signedness of poc primary types. The signed tests are failing. Need to put in more bit-wrangling-foo. Doesn't run on Windows yet.

Adapting poc to my now typical project directory structure. Adapting the xcode project to Xcode 3.2 and specifiying target settings in congif files. Doesn't run on Windows yet.

Backup commit. In the middst of a design change and experimentation for the mpmc unbound locked fifo queue.

Backup commit. First unit test draft for the mpmc queue done. Contains a memory error that points to a design error with the queue. The queue should never take over ownership of its nodes and therefore never create or free them. Why not? To allow the lib user to use static pools for nodes and control when they are allocated and deallocated without any intervention of the queue.

Started to add memory and data alignment helper functions. Still problems with finding the amp_raw framework therefore tests don't run.

Amidst creating an own header and source file for the mpmc unbound end locked fifo queue. Code doesn't compile yet.

Documented the naming scheme to use and included the amp Xcode project to use the amp framework easily.

Created an amp framework to ease use of amp from within other Xcode projects.

Added functionality to check alignment, specify alignment for static / global variables, and allocate and free aligned memory.

Backup commit. No working or even compiling code. First outline of MPMC queue with producer and consumer locks added.

Replaced amp references with peak references - copy and past of text can be as bad as copy and paste of code ;-)