The idea is to make use of the dynamic_set_auxiliary_dseries.m file to generate
the initial conditions for all auxiliary variables, including the diffs.
Also remove the check done by the preprocessor for the lags in histval, since
it does not work correctly with the diff operator.
The engine is now more robust and should reject any expression that does not
conform to the expected form. It is also able to deal with more cases, such as
terms appearing with a minus sign, or variables in the middle of a
three-factors product.
BTW, use a std::tuple for storing the result of the matching inside
PacExpectationNode, and change the order of components within the
structure (variable first, scalar last).
The preprocessor now writes all the symmetric elements in the "hp"
matrix (derivatives of the hessian w.r.t. parameters), for consistency with all
other derivatives output.
Previously it was only writing one of the two symmetric elements, when indices
of endogenous were different.
Also, no longer compute two times symmetric elements in derivation w.r.t.
parameters at order 2, for consistency with derivation w.r.t. endogenous.
It is therefore now necessary to duplicate them in the output to keep behavior
unchanged.
When creating the sparse matrix (in MATLAB or C mode), since storage is in
column-major order, output the first column, then the second, then the third.
This gives a significant performance boost in use_dll mode (at both compilation
and runtime), because it facilitates memory accesses and expression reusage.
New options "mexext" and "matlabroot" are introduced, so that the preprocessor
knows where to find MATLAB and which architecture to compile for.
Only recent gcc is now supported. A set of optimization flags is used so that
compilation goes reasonably fast on large models.
Consequently, options "msvc", "mingw" and "cygwin" have been removed.
In particular, it is necessary to turn back DataTree::AddVariable() into a
non-virtual method, because it is called from DataTree's constructor. Enforcing
the absence of leads/lags is now done using a new boolean DataTree::is_static.
Take advantage of the new copy constructor for handling
PlannerObjectiveStatement more elegantly.
Unfortunately it is not possible to implement *move* constructor / assigment
operators, because the reference ExprNode::datatree is not mutable.
This facilitates switching variable types on the fly. In particular, this
allows removing the hack in DynamicModel::updateAfterVariableChange() that way
basically recreating all the nodes after the type change.
This mimicks the structure of M-functions (though the logic for filling the
temporary terms vector is a bit different).
This change implied a modification in the way we compute the checksum in case
of block decomposition (the temporary terms for the C output are not correctly
computed in that case).
Houtan Bastani
Sébastien Villemot
Ferhat Mihoubi