one major issue was that QSE solving was only running at each partition. This was creating effectivley infinite sources of partitioned species. Now we partition when engine updates are triggered, however, solveQSEAbundance is called every timestep. This has major performance implications and so has required a lot of optimization to make it even somewhat viable. For now construction is much slower. Time per iteration is still slower than it was before; however, it is tractable. There is also currently too much stiffness in the network. This is likeley a bug that was introduced in this refactoring which will be addressed soon.
This entailed a major rewrite of the composition handling from each engine and engine view along with the solver and primer. The intent here is to let Compositions be constructed from the same extensive property which the solver tracks internally. This addressed C0 discontinuity issues in the tracked molar abundances of species which were introduced by repeadidly swaping from molar abundance space to mass fraction space and back. This also allowed for a simplification of the primeNetwork method. Specifically the mass borrowing system was dramatically simplified as molar abundances are extensive.
added new trigger which throws on convergence failures. This also required adding a new "step" method for other triggers which gets called every step instead of every trigger throw. The ConvergenceFailureTrigger has sucsessgully let teh engine evolve to 10Gyr without any meaningful growth of convergence failures.
previousl the sparsity calculations for the jacobian matrix were completly broken. The method subgraph_sparsity was returning that all derivities were only depenednt on temperature and density. It should have been reporting that they also depended on some of the abundances. This was resolved by switching to a different structural sparsity engine (for_jac_sparsity). This bug had turned the solver into a fixed point iteration solver which failed for the stiff system we have. Now that it is resolved the solver can once again evolved over Gyr timescales.
bigs were introduced by the interface change from accepting raw molar abundance vectors to using the composition vector. This commit resolves many of these, including preformant ways to report that a species is not present in the composition and unified index lookups using composition object tooling.
BREAKING CHANGE:
Major weak rate progress which includes: A refactor of many of the public interfaces for GridFire Engines to use composition objects as opposed to raw abundance vectors. This helps prevent index mismatch errors. Further, the weak reaction class has been expanded with the majority of an implimentation, including an atomic_base derived class to allow for proper auto diff tracking of the interpolated table results. Some additional changes are that the version of fourdst and libcomposition have been bumped to versions with smarter caching of intermediate vectors and a few bug fixes.