Free functions for texturing, point clouds, and trace #3764

Job	Run time
macos-13 C++17 py3.11 MacOS-13 llvm17	27m 5s
Ubuntu Debug gcc7/C++17 llvm9 py3.7 oiio2.3 exr2.4 sse4 exr2.4	40m 4s
macos-14 C++17 py3.11 MacOS-14-ARM llvm17	9m 30s
VFX2021 gcc9/C++17 llvm11 py3.7 oiio2.4 sse4 batch-b8avx2	16m 44s
Ubuntu gcc10/C++17 llvm10 oiio-release avx2	9m 39s
Ubuntu latest releases gcc11/C++17 llvm16 exr3.2 py3.9 avx2 batch-b16avx512	27m 8s
Ubuntu bleeding edge gcc12/C++17 llvm17 oiio/ocio/exr/pybind-main py3.10 avx2 batch-b16avx512	24m 22s
VFX2022 gcc9/C++17 llvm13 py3.9 exr3.1 oiio-rel avx2	18m 35s
Ubuntu clang14/C++17 llvm14 py3.8 avx2 batch-b16avx512	27m 7s
VFX2022 clang12/C++17 llvm12 oiio-main py3.9 avx2 batch-avx512	22m 50s
Ubuntu clang-format	4m 16s
VFX2022 gcc9/C++17 llvm11 py3.9 exr3.1 oiio2.3 sse2 batch-b4sse2	19m 8s
VFX2022 icc/C++17 llvm14 py3.9 oiio-main avx2	29m 27s
VFX2022 icx/C++17 llvm14 py3.9 oiio2.3 avx2	22m 58s
VFX2023 gcc11/C++17 llvm15 py3.10 oiio-rel avx2	20m 29s
VFX2023 GPU Cuda11 gcc11/C++17 llvm15 py3.10 OIIO-main avx2	6m 58s
VFX2024 gcc11/C++17 llvm17 py3.11 boost1.82 oiio-rel avx2	24m 40s
VFX2021 oldest everything gcc9/C++17 llvm9 py3.7 oiio2.3 no-simd	10m 11s
VFX2022 sanitizers	29m 38s
VFX2023 abi check	13m 49s
	6h 44m 38s

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