Internal API
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MaskContainer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:class:`libertem.common.container.MaskContainer` helps to implement highly efficient
mask application operations, such as virtual detector, center of mass or feature
vector calculations.

.. versionchanged:: 0.4.0
    Moved from :mod:`libertem.job.masks` to :mod:`libertem.common.container` to
    use it in UDFs and prepare deprecation of the Job interface.

.. automodule:: libertem.common.container
   :members: MaskContainer

Shapes and slices
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These classes help to manipulate shapes and slices of n-dimensional binary data to
facilitate the MapReduce-like processing of LiberTEM. See :ref:`concepts` for
a high-level introduction.

.. automodule:: libertem.common.shape
   :members:
   :undoc-members:

.. automodule:: libertem.common.slice
   :members:
   :undoc-members:

CPU and CUDA devices
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These methods get and set information that controls on which devices a
computation runs.

.. automodule:: libertem.common.backend
   :members:
   :undoc-members:

.. automodule:: libertem.utils.devices
   :members:
   :undoc-members: