This is a breaking change that changes the signature, sorry -- if you
were using concatenate() for mesh concatenation before, enjoy the new
less strange signature, if you were using it for making the mesh owned
before (which was a strange and not very well thought out use case),
please use the recently added owned() instead. I thought about adding an
overload for backwards compatibility, but it would need to allocate to
work. This way with the breakage it's ensured you actually change to the
right API.
This also cleans up a lot of ugly code in the internals and resolves one
XFAIL in removeDuplicates().
The array size is always last, defaulting to 0. This makes it consistent
with the offset-only constructor and removes two unnecessary overloads.
It's a breaking change, but I don't think array attributes have many
users yet -- and better to do this now than later. In any case, sorry
about breaking your code.
I also tried storing only a 32-bit index and have the base pointer stored
in ArrayEqual/ArrayHash also, but that didn't really improve amything
much (probably because the allocated items are 8-byte aligned anyway) and
only made the code a lot less clear.
Basically using the same idea as with the discrete version -- having the
second dimension dynamic, together with restricting the implementation to
just Float and Double.
According to the SubdivideRemoveDuplicatesBenchmark, this makes the
implementation slightly slower. I presume this is due to how minmax and
offsets are calculated which is quite cache-inefficient as it goes over
the same memory block multiple times. Added a TODO for later.