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Easy Integration
-
Header-only C++14 library with no dependencies. Compatible with VFX Reference Platform CY2018 and newer. Drop in and start sampling.
+
Header-only C++17 library with no dependencies. Compatible with VFX Reference Platform CY2021 and newer. Drop in and start sampling.
diff --git a/specs/cpp-17-migration/spec.md b/specs/cpp-17-migration/spec.md
index 41eaafe..4f7db34 100644
--- a/specs/cpp-17-migration/spec.md
+++ b/specs/cpp-17-migration/spec.md
@@ -189,25 +189,38 @@ Update minimum tested compiler versions:
## Validation
-The following must be carried out before the migration is accepted. They are
-not yet done.
-
-- **NVCC device-linkage**: The blue noise tables are consumed from
- `OQMC_HOST_DEVICE` code (`bntables.h` `tableValue`), so they must be usable
- on the device. The current internal-linkage `constexpr` arrays produce a
- per-TU copy, which is what makes them trivially available in device code
- today. `inline constexpr` changes this to a single external-linkage
- definition, and NVCC's handling of inline-variable device-side definitions
- has historically had caveats. Confirm on the minimum supported toolchain
- (NVCC 11) that the tables compile, link, and produce correct results in
- device code with no duplicate-definition or missing-symbol errors.
-
-- **Compile-time trade-off**: A test/benchmark must be created to measure the
- per-TU parse cost described under Migration risks on a representative
- consumer (several translation units each including `bntables.h`). Compare
- the C++14 binary variant, C++14 header-only, and the proposed C++17
- `inline constexpr` builds for total compile time and final binary size, and
- record the results here so the trade-off can be accepted explicitly.
+- **NVCC device-linkage** (outstanding): The blue noise tables are consumed
+ from `OQMC_HOST_DEVICE` code (`bntables.h` `tableValue`), so they must be
+ usable on the device. The current internal-linkage `constexpr` arrays
+ produce a per-TU copy, which is what makes them trivially available in
+ device code today. `inline constexpr` changes this to a single
+ external-linkage definition, and NVCC's handling of inline-variable
+ device-side definitions has historically had caveats. Confirm on the
+ minimum supported toolchain (NVCC 11) that the tables compile, link, and
+ produce correct results in device code with no duplicate-definition or
+ missing-symbol errors. Note that the tables are only read from host code
+ in practice (each blue noise sampler copies them into its cache in
+ `initialiseCache`, which is host-only), but this must still be verified on
+ CUDA hardware before release.
+
+- **Compile-time trade-off** (measured): A benchmark harness compiled 8
+ representative consumer translation units (each using all three blue noise
+ sampler variants, so all six tables are referenced) plus a main, with
+ `-O2`, best of 3 runs. Apple Silicon M-series, Clang 21.1.1:
+
+ | Configuration | Build time | Binary size |
+ | --------------------------- | ---------- | ----------- |
+ | C++14 header-only | 3.83 s | 12.73 MB |
+ | C++14 binary variant | 2.30 s | 1.64 MB |
+ | C++17 `inline constexpr` | 3.83 s | 1.64 MB |
+
+ The C++17 build matches the binary variant's final size exactly (the
+ linker deduplicates the single external-linkage definition) while staying
+ header-only, and all three builds produce bit-identical sample output. The
+ per-TU parse cost relative to the binary variant is ~170 ms per table
+ consuming TU on this machine, the same as the C++14 header-only build. In
+ real projects only TUs that include a blue noise sampler header pay this
+ cost. This trade-off is accepted.
## Candidate C++17 improvements
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index b397463..938fa86 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,23 +3,7 @@
# Create project target
-if(OPENQMC_ENABLE_BINARY)
- if(OPENQMC_SHARED_LIB)
- add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} SHARED)
- else()
- add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC)
- endif()
-
- if(OPENQMC_FORCE_PIC)
- set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
- endif()
-
- target_sources(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE bntables.cpp)
- target_compile_options(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${OPENQMC_CXX_FLAGS})
- target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
-else()
- add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE)
-endif()
+add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE)
if(${OPENQMC_ARCH_TYPE} STREQUAL Scalar)
target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE OQMC_FORCE_SCALAR)
@@ -29,11 +13,7 @@ if(${OPENQMC_ARCH_TYPE} STREQUAL GPU)
target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE OQMC_FORCE_SCALAR)
endif()
-if(OPENQMC_ENABLE_BINARY)
- target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE OQMC_ENABLE_BINARY)
-endif()
-
-target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE cxx_std_14)
+target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} INTERFACE cxx_std_17)
# Add include directories
diff --git a/src/bntables.cpp b/src/bntables.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c59cb2..0000000
--- a/src/bntables.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-// Copyright Contributors to the OpenQMC Project.
-
-#include