Jacques Lucke
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When a function is executed for many elements (e.g. per point) it is often the case that some parameters are different for every element and other parameters are the same (there are some more less common cases). To simplify writing such functions one can use a "virtual array". This is a data structure that has a value for every index, but might not be stored as an actual array internally. Instead, it might be just a single value or is computed on the fly. There are various tradeoffs involved when using this data structure which are mentioned in `BLI_virtual_array.hh`. It is called "virtual", because it uses inheritance and virtual methods. Furthermore, there is a new virtual vector array data structure, which is an array of vectors. Both these types have corresponding generic variants, which can be used when the data type is not known at compile time. This is typically the case when building a somewhat generic execution system. The function system used these virtual data structures before, but now they are more versatile. I've done this refactor in preparation for the attribute processor and other features of geometry nodes. I moved the typed virtual arrays to blenlib, so that they can be used independent of the function system. One open question for me is whether all the generic data structures (and `CPPType`) should be moved to blenlib as well. They are well isolated and don't really contain any business logic. That can be done later if necessary.
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