Changes to CMakeLists

[CBenghi]

• added vs2022 settings
• standardised param_setter function
• added regression suite executable (early draft)

also minor geometryLoader cleanup.

[beachtom]

@CBenghi happy to merge as is.

Would it be possible to also configure the benchmarking (in a future PR) to check if the number of vertexes etc.. change. This is not obviously fully robust - but if it changes it may at least indicate we need to check it manually

[CBenghi]

Sure,
I'm working on it today, will update the PR later.

[CBenghi]

Hi @beachtom,

I've improved the regression app structure and the output. Command line options work as follows:

Command line options are:
  benchmark <source>        geometry performance evaluation of ifc files in folder
  benchmarktable <source>   geometry performance evaluation (tab separated, one line per file)
  help                      prints this help

  <source>                  can be either an ifc file or a folder

In case the program hangs, ctrl-c reports the geometry entity being meshed.

The benchmark command returns a verbose report like the following:

Processing c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\19027 ARC COS.ifc
 - size is 23,406,412 bytes.
 - Reading and loading took 3,095 ms.
 - Generating geometry took 6,641 msec.
 - Total processing took 9,737 msec.
 - 2,376,387 vertices count.
 - 792,129 indices count.
 - 0 errors.
 - 501 entities.

Processing c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\NBG1-09-D-Z1-3M-GA5100-001-B.ifc
 - size is 95,020 bytes.
 - Reading and loading took 43 ms.
 - Generating geometry took 6 msec.
 - Total processing took 50 msec.
 - 1,728 vertices count.
 - 576 indices count.
 - 0 errors.
 - 28 entities.


Results:
 - c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\19027 ARC COS.ifc: 2.40386 MB/sec
 - c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\NBG1-09-D-Z1-3M-GA5100-001-B.ifc: 1.9004 MB/sec

Average: 2.15213 MB/sec

while benchmarktable option returns a compact table (tab separated to be copied to excel or similar):

File    bytes   size    reading msec    geom msec       total msec      vertices count  indexes count   error count     entity count
c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\19027 ARC COS.ifc     23406412        22.3221 Mb      2233    6289    8523    2376387 792129  0       501
c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\NBG1-09-D-Z1-3M-GA5100-001-B.ifc      95020   92.793 Kb       50      10      61      1728    576     0       28   

Results:
 - c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\19027 ARC COS.ifc: 2.74626 MB/sec
 - c:\Data\Ifc\_DebugSupport\NBG1-09-D-Z1-3M-GA5100-001-B.ifc: 1.5577 MB/sec

Average: 2.15198 MB/sec