Fixing static linking (for Windows)

[hkaiser]

• add github actions
• flyby: unify handling of excluded targets for Windows github builders

potentially resolves #5908

[StellarBot]

Performance test report

HPX Performance

Comparison

BENCHMARK	FORK_JOIN_EXECUTOR	PARALLEL_EXECUTOR	SCHEDULER_EXECUTOR
For Each	(=)	=	(=)

Info

Property	Before	After
HPX Commit	d5655f8	b331b48
HPX Datetime	2022-05-31T12:57:29+00:00	2022-07-11T23:05:45+00:00
Envfile
Hostname	nid01193	nid00788
Compiler	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0
Datetime	2022-05-31T15:13:01.357969+02:00	2022-07-12T01:21:29.162911+02:00
Clustername	daint	daint

Comparison

BENCHMARK	NO-EXECUTOR
Future Overhead - Create Thread Hierarchical - Latch	-

Info

Property	Before	After
HPX Commit	d5655f8	b331b48
HPX Datetime	2022-05-31T12:57:29+00:00	2022-07-11T23:05:45+00:00
Envfile
Hostname	nid01193	nid00788
Compiler	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0
Datetime	2022-05-31T15:13:18.026239+02:00	2022-07-12T01:21:46.297456+02:00
Clustername	daint	daint

Comparison

BENCHMARK	FORK_JOIN_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT_FORK_JOIN_POLICY_ALLOCATOR	PARALLEL_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT_PARALLEL_POLICY_ALLOCATOR	SCHEDULER_EXECUTOR_DEFAULT_SCHEDULER_EXECUTOR_ALLOCATOR
Stream Benchmark - Add	(=)	(=)	(=)
Stream Benchmark - Scale	(=)	(=)	(=)
Stream Benchmark - Triad	(=)	(=)	(=)
Stream Benchmark - Copy	(=)	(=)	(=)

Info

Property	Before	After
HPX Commit	71d8dbe	b331b48
HPX Datetime	2021-11-10T19:14:21+00:00	2022-07-11T23:05:45+00:00
Envfile
Hostname	nid00120	nid00788
Compiler	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0	/apps/daint/SSL/HPX/packages/llvm-11.0.0/bin/clang++ 11.0.0
Datetime	2021-11-10T20:28:18.266961+01:00	2022-07-12T01:22:01.494497+02:00
Clustername	daint	daint

Explanation of Symbols

Symbol	MEANING
=	No performance change (confidence interval within ±1%)
(=)	Probably no performance change (confidence interval within ±2%)
(+)/(-)	Very small performance improvement/degradation (≤1%)
+/-	Small performance improvement/degradation (≤5%)
++/--	Large performance improvement/degradation (≤10%)
+++/---	Very large performance improvement/degradation (>10%)
?	Probably no change, but quite large uncertainty (confidence interval with ±5%)
??	Unclear result, very large uncertainty (±10%)
???	Something unexpected…

[hkaiser]

@Neumann-A: would you have the time to verify if this PR solves the problems you reported? Please note that I have added a github action CI that builds HPX using static linking on Windows.

[hkaiser]

bors merge

[bors]

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