siemens / embb

Features:

• Added support for heterogeneous systems in algorithms and dataflow
• Added ForLoop function for parallel index-based loops
• Added extension for MTAPI callback functions
• Added job and task attributes for scheduling based on problem size
• Added functions to retrieve context for OpenCL and CUDA plugins

Changes and improvements:

• Added support for atomic operations provided by C11/C++11
• Optimized spinlock implementation
• Added default constructors for Group and Queue
• Added test for exceptions in mtapi_cpp
• Added initialization of affinity in execution policy constructors
• Added initialization of user_data pointer in task attributes
• Corrected return code for cancelled task in network plugin
• Improved error handling in MTAPI CPP interface
• Enabled reuse of main thread by default
• Added explicit finalization of allocated elements in MTAPI pool
• Removed spinlock from dataflow
• Added initialization of clock listeners in dataflow
• Changed dataflow so that sources are run within slice group
• Changed iterators in containers to return pairs and added documentation
• Added iterators to value pools and changed destruction of elements in object pools
• Added initializers in unit tests
• Resolved Coverity Scan warnings
• Resolved warning when compiling with GCC 7.1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed resource leak in unit test for pool
• Fixed potential resource leak and remote task cancel handling in network plugin
• Fixed MTAPI_CPP affinity test on single-core machines
• Fixed handling of task error conditions encountered during execution
• Fixed wrong allocation size in MTAPI C implementation
• Fixed possible overflow in unit test for algorithms
• Fixed problem in unit test where mutex could be destroyed while still being locked

Build system:

• Added option for generating shared libraries
• Added CMake package finder and use-script for integration of EMB² in applications
• Added output for all options in CMake build script
• Integrated Coverity Scan into Travis CI builds
• Fixed linker problem with CUDA plugin
• Fixed script that creates tarball and zip file
• Updated .travis.yml

Documentation:

• Added sample application (video processing)
• Revised tutorial and converted to markdown format
• Included generation of HTML and EPUB files (in addition to PDF)
• Added example for CUDA plugin
• Improved Doxygen documentation
• Extended CONTRIBUTING file
• Updated README file
• Updated year in license headers
• Fixed typos