v0.10.0.0

Notable Changes

This release introduces breaking API changes from the prior version. clSPARSE is still in a beta phase, and we may need to change the API at times to increase maintainability or fix design issues. A few changes are introduced to more closely follow the recently published Cpp Core Guidelines, a strong candidate for a coding guidelines to be used in clSPARSE.

• The API to create meta data for a csr encoded sparse matrix has changed. This is an attempt to hide the implementation details of how meta data is stored from the user. This allows the library freedom to change and iterate meta data without breaking clients.
  • clsparseCsrMetaCompute() renamed to clsparseCsrMetaCreate(), to more intuitively pair with the
  • New API clsparseCsrMetaDelete()
• A few routines changed pure 'out' parameters to be returned on the stack as structs
  • clsparseCreateControl()
  • clsparseGetEvent()
  • clsparseCreateSolverControl()
  • clsparseCsrMetaSize()
• A new index type has been introduced clsparseIdx_t to abstract the size of an index from the library interface; the only choice currently is 4 bytes. If users use this datatype for indices in their code, changing to 8-byte indices in the future should only be a recompile.
• The names of member variables in our public structs have been renamed for consistency. Before, our member variables was not consistent with camel case and underscore naming. Member variables are now standardized to use underscores, but we keep camel casing for function and struct names
  • colIndices to col_indices
  • rowIndices to row_indices
  • rowOffsets to row_pointer (renamed to pointer to remove confusion with buffer offsets for cl1.2)
  • offValues to off_values
  • offColInd to off_col_indices
  • offRowOff to off_row_pointer
  • offValues to off_values
• All samples have been changed to compile with the above changes.