PHIDL 1.7.0

1.7.0 (April 9, 2024)

Major optimization update!

New features

• New KLayout-based boolean/offset/outline functions! These are under the name pg.kl_boolean(), pg.kl_offset, etc. They utilize the excellent KLayout tile processor, which allows breaking down & parallelizing these operations--in a nutshell, these operations should be much, much faster.
• Added D.simplify(), which allows you to significantly reduce memory usage of a geometry by discarding unnecessarily-precise points from all polygons within a Device. Uses the very robust Ramer–Douglas–Peucker algorithm for simplification.
• Now pg.gridsweep() allows param_x or param_y to be integers, which creates copies of the same parameters in the x or y direction.

Bugfixes

• 20x speedup to the internal operation _merge_nearby_floating_points() which should significantly speed up large operations (thanks Alex Tait @atait)
• New pre-commit using ruff (thanks Bas Nijholt @basnijholt)
• Grammar fix to documentation (thanks Ashish Panigrahi @paniash)