Changes since v0.5.6:

PTX Compilation library

This version introduces a single major change:

• #385 : Support for NVIDIA's PTX compilation library.

Note: The CUDA driver already supports compilation of PTX code, but it has limited supported for various compilation options; plus - it requires a driver to be loaded, i.e. requires kernel involvement and a GPU on your system. This library does not.

Value-vs-reference issues

• #430 : Now passing kernel-like objects by reference rather than by value where relevant in the kernel launch wrapper functions.
• #433 : Now passing program name by value rather than by reference.

Other changes

• #431 : The NVTX wrappers no longer depend on a thread support library
• #436 : The wrapper library now respects CUDA_NO_HALF, when you want to avoid CUDA defining the half
• #432 : Removed some std:: rather than ::std:: namespace qualifications which had snuck into the codebase recently (which cause trouble with NVIDIA's cuda::std namespace).
• #435 : Updated static data tables for the Ampere/Lovelace (8.x) and Hopper architectures.