UPC++ feature list

[Yili Zheng]

UPC++

Core

• Async Tasks (should rewrite using variadic templates) <async.h, async_templates.h, async_impl*.h>
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Copies <async_copy.h>
• Events <event.h>
• Global Pointers <global_ptr.h>
• Shared Locks <lock.h>
• Shared Arrays <shared_array.h>
• Shared Variables <shared_var.h>
• Memory Management <upcxx_internal.h>
• Init/Finalize <upcxx_runtime.h>
• Ranks and Barriers <upcxx_runtime.h>

Questionable

• Collectives <collective.h, upcxx_types.h>
• Global References and memberof <global_ref.h>

Internal

• Groups? <group.h>
• Queues <queue.h>
• Utils <utils.h>

Library

• Multidimensional Arrays <array.h, upcxx-arrays/>
• Timers <timer.h>

Extended/Experimental

• Safe Broadcast <broadcast.h, interfaces.h, interfaces_internal.h>
• Finish <finish.h>
• Fork/Join <forkjoin.h>
• Ranges <range.h>
• Higher-Level Reductions <reduce.h>
• Teams <team.h>

Multidimensional Arrays

Core

• Domain Library
• Lambda Foreach
• Point Indexing
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Copies
• Exchange
• Scatter/Gather

Extended/Experimental

• Bounds Checking
• Stridedness Specializations
• Padding
• Vector Broadcast
• Storage/Base Pointer
• Chained Indexing
• Function-Call Indexing

Deprecated

• NBI Copy
• Macro Indexing
• Foreach Specializations
• POINT, RECTDOMAIN, and ARRAY macros

[BrianS]

while all interesting, I think we are now working in a smaller set of core features with a smaller API.

[Dan Bonachea]

This issue mostly applied to v0.1.

Spec 1.0 draft 2 serves as both specification and feature list, including some features that have yet to be fully specified.