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blender-archive/source/blender/functions/FN_multi_function_procedure_executor.hh
Jacques Lucke 658fd8df0b Geometry Nodes: refactor multi-threading in field evaluation
Previously, there was a fixed grain size for all multi-functions. That was
not sufficient because some functions could benefit a lot from smaller
grain sizes.

This refactors adds a new `MultiFunction::call_auto` method which has the
same effect as just calling `MultiFunction::call` but additionally figures
out how to execute the specific multi-function efficiently. It determines
a good grain size and decides whether the mask indices should be shifted
or not.

Most multi-function evaluations benefit from this, but medium sized work
loads (1000 - 50000 elements) benefit from it the most. Especially when
expensive multi-functions (e.g. noise) is involved. This is because for
smaller work loads, threading is rarely used and for larger work loads
threading worked fine before already.

With this patch, multi-functions can specify execution hints, that allow
the caller to execute it most efficiently. These execution hints still
have to be added to more functions.

Some performance measurements of a field evaluation involving noise and
math nodes, ordered by the number of elements being evaluated:
```
1,000,000: 133 ms   -> 120 ms
  100,000:  30 ms   ->  18 ms
   10,000:  20 ms   ->   2.7 ms
    1,000:   4 ms   ->   0.5 ms
      100:   0.5 ms ->   0.4 ms
```
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#pragma once
/** \file
* \ingroup fn
*/
#include "FN_multi_function_procedure.hh"
namespace blender::fn {
/** A multi-function that executes a procedure internally. */
class MFProcedureExecutor : public MultiFunction {
private:
MFSignature signature_;
const MFProcedure &procedure_;
public:
MFProcedureExecutor(const MFProcedure &procedure);
void call(IndexMask mask, MFParams params, MFContext context) const override;
private:
ExecutionHints get_execution_hints() const override;
};
} // namespace blender::fn