Only the parallel sparse matrix code was updated. This is used by e.g.
LSCM and ABF unwrap, and performance seems about the same or better.
Parallel GEMM (dense matrix-matrix multiplication) is used by libmv,
for example in libmv_keyframe_selection_test for a 54 x 54 matrix.
However it appears to harm performance, removing parallelization makes
that test run 5x faster on a Apple M3 Max.
There has been no new Eigen release since 2021, however there is active
development in master and it includes support for a C++ thread pool for
GEMM. So we could upgrade, but the algorithm remains the same and
looking at the implementation it just does not seem designed for modern
many core CPUs. Unless the matrix is much larger, there's too much thread
synchronization overhead. So it does not seem useful to enable that
thread pool for us.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136865
This commit contains the minimum to make clang build/work with blender, asan and ninja build support is forthcoming
Things to note:
1) Builds and runs, and is able to pass all tests (except for the freestyle_stroke_material.blend test which was broken at that time for all platforms by the looks of it)
2) It's slightly faster than msvc when using cycles. (time in seconds, on an i7-3370)
victor_cpu
msvc:3099.51
clang:2796.43
pavillon_barcelona_cpu
msvc:1872.05
clang:1827.72
koro_cpu
msvc:1097.58
clang:1006.51
fishy_cat_cpu
msvc:815.37
clang:722.2
classroom_cpu
msvc:1705.39
clang:1575.43
bmw27_cpu
msvc:552.38
clang:561.53
barbershop_interior_cpu
msvc:2134.93
clang:1922.33
3) clang on windows uses a drop in replacement for the Microsoft cl.exe (takes some of the Microsoft parameters, but not all, and takes some of the clang parameters but not all) and uses ms headers + libraries + linker, so you still need visual studio installed and will use our existing vc14 svn libs.
4) X64 only currently, X86 builds but crashes on startup.
5) Tested with llvm/clang 6.0.0
6) Requires visual studio integration, available at https://github.com/LazyDodo/llvm-vs2017-integration
7) The Microsoft compiler spawns a few copies of cl in parallel to get faster build times, clang doesn't, so the build time is 3-4x slower than with msvc.
8) No openmp support yet. Have not looked at this much, the binary distribution of clang doesn't seem to include it on windows.
9) No ASAN support yet, some of the sanitizers can be made to work, but it was decided to leave support out of this commit.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3304
