histogram/doc/concepts/Storage.qbk
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thread-safe storage
- new thread-safe accumulators for arithmetic types
- storages have a new flag `has_threading_support` to indicate support for parallel cell access
- histogram automatically synchronises growing axes and storage if necessary
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[section:Storage Storage]
A [*Storage] handles memory for the bin counters and provides a uniform vector-like interface for accessing cell values for reading and writing. Must be [@https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/DefaultConstructible DefaultConstructible], [@https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/CopyConstructible CopyConstructible], and [@https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/CopyAssignable CopyAssignable].
[heading Required features]
* `S` is a type meeting the requirements of [*Storage]
* `s` is a value of types `S`
* `i` and `n` are values of type `std::size_t`
[table Valid expressions
[[Expression] [Returns] [Semantics, Pre/Post-conditions]]
[
[`S::value_type`]
[]
[
Cell element type, may be either an integral type, floating-point type, or a type meeting the requirements of [link histogram.concepts.Accumulator [*Accumulator]].
]
]
[
[`S::reference`]
[]
[
`S::value_type&` or a proxy class which acts like a reference.
]
]
[
[`S::const_reference`]
[]
[
`const S::value_type&` or a proxy class which acts like a const reference. Implicitly convertible to `S::value_type`.
]
]
[
[`S::iterator`]
[]
[
Returns an STL-compliant iterator type which dereferences to `S::reference`.
]
]
[
[`S::const_iterator`]
[]
[
Returns an STL-compliant iterator type which dereferences to `S::const_reference`.
]
]
[
[`S::has_threading_support`]
[bool]
[
Static constexpr member. True, if storage supports parallel read-write access to all cells.
False, if such parallel access would either cause data corruption or require synchronization so that effectively only one cell can be accessed at a time, making cell-access single-threaded.
]
]
[
[`s.size()`]
[`std::size_t`]
[
Const member function which returns the current number of cells in the storage.
]
]
[
[`s.reset(n)`]
[]
[
Non-const member function which discards current cell values, changes storage size to `n` and initializes all cells to the default-constructed state.
]
]
[
[`s.begin()`]
[`S::iterator`]
[
Non-const member function which returns the iterator to the first storage cell.
]
]
[
[`s.begin()`]
[`S::const_iterator`]
[
Likewise, but a const member function which returns the const_iterator.
]
]
[
[`s.end()`]
[`S::iterator`]
[
Member function which returns the iterator to the cell after the last valid storage cell.
]
]
[
[`s.end()`]
[`S::const_iterator`]
[
Likewise, but a const member function which returns the const_iterator.
]
]
[
[`s[i]`]
[`S::reference`]
[
Member function which returns a reference to the cell which is addressed by `i`. The index `i` must be valid: `i < s.size()`.
]
]
[
[`s[i]`]
[`S::const_reference`]
[
Likewise, but a const member function which returns a const reference.
]
]
[
[`s == t`]
[`bool`]
[
`t` is another value of a type which meets the requirements of [*Storage]. Returns `true` if arguments have the same number of cells and all cells compare equal. Otherwise returns `false`.
]
]
[
[`s.get_allocator()`]
[`Alloc`]
[
Const member function which returns the allocator `Alloc` used by `S`. May be omitted if `S` does not use allocators. If this member function exists, also a special constructor must exists so that `S(s.get_allocator())` is a valid expression.
]
]
]
[heading Optional features]
* `S` is a type meeting the requirements of [*Storage]
* `s` is a value of types `S`
* `x` is convertible to `double`
* `ar` is a value of an archive with Boost.Serialization semantics
[table Valid expressions
[[Expression] [Returns] [Semantics, Pre/Post-conditions]]
[
[`s *= x`]
[`S&`]
[
Scales all cell values by the factor `x` and returns a reference to self.
]
]
[
[`ar & s`]
[]
[
Serializes `s` to the archive or loads serialized state from the archive.
]
]
]
[heading Models]
* [classref boost::histogram::unlimited_storage]
* [classref boost::histogram::storage_adaptor]
* [classref boost::histogram::dense_storage]
* [classref boost::histogram::weight_storage]
* [classref boost::histogram::profile_storage]
* [classref boost::histogram::weighted_profile_storage]
[endsect]