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will require coordination with more than one Working Group.
- Architecture review:
- Implement use of C++11 constructs in key areas
- Continue adiabatic adoption of C++11 constructs to simplify and enhance performance on key areas of the geometry modeller and navigation system.
- Implement use of C++11 constructs in key areas
- Navigation & optimisation:
- Review use of regular navigation in conjunction with multiple-scattering
- Resolve current open issue affecting regular navigation for run-time warnings being sometimes reported.
- Profiling and optimisation of multiple navigation
- Revise the design and implementation of multiple navigation and coupled-transportation.
- Identify any open issue in application to fast-simulation, scoring and layered tracking geometries and in conjuction with magnetic field transport.
- Identify possible CPU performance penalties which may be introduced with the activation of coupled-transportation. Optimize overall performance (ATLAS request).
- Separate safety computation and state from navigator
- Loose coupling of G4Navigator in the computation of the safety distances from geometrical boundaries, factorising out the implementation now included in G4Navigator class, to get rid of potential side effects.
- Implement strategy for a light-weight base navigator class not holding navigation state, eventually adopting template arguments.
- Review use of regular navigation in conjunction with multiple-scattering
- New features:
- Introduction of fast and high-order steppers in field propagation
- Revised implementation of steppers based on templates.
- Introduction of fast and high-order steppers in field propagation
- Introduction of scaled shapes construct
- Ability to define limited set of solids with applied scaling transformation.
- Complete implementation of the Unified Solids library with progressive adoption of shapes from VecGeom
- Complete implementation of remaining solids in the Unified Solids library (VecGeom) for geometrical shapes.
- Integrate with the new vectorised implementation of the primitives from the VecGeom geometry modeller currently under development.
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Created: 19 January 2016
Modified: 19 January 2016, GC