Enhance Continuous Integration & Testing

[wxmerkt]

• Add configuration for multithreading (e.g. clang multithreading fails unittests, cf. Unittests fail for clang + multi-threading #1026) - handled in Increase CI coverage: multi-threading, format check #1028
• Build and test in Debug and Release mode (handled in Increase CI coverage: multi-threading, format check #1028)
• Add configuration for collision support
• Add configuration for code-gen
• Add configuration for vectorisation
• Add dashboard to track benchmark performance over PRs/commits to devel

[cmastalli]

Testing vectorization will require to compile all the dependencies (pinocchio, hpp-fcl, eigenpy, etc) with the same flags, if we want to run Python-based tests and examples.
How are you planning to do this?

[wxmerkt]

Good point. I don't have the bandwidth to implement these items but wanted to keep track of them. They are a good starting point if someone is keen to pick them up or if we'd have some engineer bandwidth

[cmastalli]

Good point. I don't have the bandwidth to implement these items but wanted to keep track of them. They are a good starting point if someone is keen to pick them up or if we'd have some engineer bandwidth

We could definitely start with testing compilation only (if this is not enough).

[wxmerkt]

Pinocchio on ROS-CI now has HPP-FCL included, so the collision tests are run as well

[cmastalli]

Pinocchio on ROS-CI now has HPP-FCL included, so the collision tests are run as well

Great! thanks for pointing out. Indeed, I didn't realize this bit.

[cmastalli]

I added a configuration for codegen using CONDA; however, it would be nice to have another one in gitlab-ci.