* integrated the new C++ persistence; removed old persistence; most of OpenCV compiles fine! the tests have not been run yet

* fixed multiple bugs in the new C++ persistence

* fixed raw size of the parsed empty sequences

* [temporarily] excluded obsolete applications traincascade and createsamples from build

* fixed several compiler warnings and multiple test failures

* undo changes in cocoa window rendering (that was fixed in another PR)

* fixed more compile warnings and the remaining test failures (hopefully)

* trying to fix the last little warning

* Cleanup macros and enable expansion of `__VA_ARGS__` for Visual Studio

* Macros for enum-arguments backwards compatibility

* Convert struct Param to enum struct

* Enabled ParamType.type for enum types

* Enabled `cv.read` and `cv.write` for enum types

* Rename unnamed enum to AAKAZE.DescriptorType

* Rename unnamed enum to AccessFlag

* Rename unnamed enum to AgastFeatureDetector.DetectorType

* Convert struct DrawMatchesFlags to enum struct

* Rename unnamed enum to FastFeatureDetector.DetectorType

* Rename unnamed enum to Formatter.FormatType

* Rename unnamed enum to HOGDescriptor.HistogramNormType

* Rename unnamed enum to DescriptorMatcher.MatcherType

* Rename unnamed enum to KAZE.DiffusivityType

* Rename unnamed enum to ORB.ScoreType

* Rename unnamed enum to UMatData.MemoryFlag

* Rename unnamed enum to _InputArray.KindFlag

* Rename unnamed enum to _OutputArray.DepthMask

* Convert normType enums to static const NormTypes

* Avoid conflicts with ElemType

* Rename unnamed enum to DescriptorStorageFormat

* core: drop usage of CV_USRTYPE1 in OpenCV

avoid OpenCV crashes due size change CV_ELEM_SIZE(CV_USRTYPE1): 8 -> 2

* ! fix persistence internal types

* added basic support for CV_16F (the new datatype etc.). CV_USRTYPE1 is now equal to CV_16F, which may break some [rarely used] functionality. We'll see

* fixed just introduced bug in norm; reverted errorneous changes in Torch importer (need to find a better solution)

* addressed some issues found during the PR review

* restored the patch to fix some perf test failures

Helper script from googletest: ./scripts/fuse_gtest_files.py

* core:OE-27 prepare universal intrinsics to expand (#11022)

* core:OE-27 prepare universal intrinsics to expand (#11022)

* core: Add universal intrinsics for AVX2

* updated implementation of wide univ. intrinsics; converted several OpenCV HAL functions: sqrt, invsqrt, magnitude, phase, exp to the wide universal intrinsics.

* converted log to universal intrinsics; cleaned up the code a bit; added v_lut_deinterleave intrinsics.

* core: Add universal intrinsics for AVX2

* fixed multiple compile errors

* fixed many more compile errors and hopefully some test failures

* fixed some more compile errors

* temporarily disabled IPP to debug exp & log; hopefully fixed Doxygen complains

* fixed some more compile errors

* fixed v_store(short*, v_float16&) signatures

* trying to fix the test failures on Linux

* fixed some issues found by alalek

* restored IPP optimization after the patch with AVX wide intrinsics has been properly tested

* restored IPP optimization after the patch with AVX wide intrinsics has been properly tested

Pass --test_bigdata to allow launching of "BigData" tests.

define itself is still here for compatibility

- disable "-Wsuggest-override" in tests

Found via `codespell`

Most part is deprecated since C++11

- removed tr1 usage (dropped in C++17)
- moved includes of vector/map/iostream/limits into ts.hpp
- require opencv_test + anonymous namespace (added compile check)
- fixed norm() usage (must be from cvtest::norm for checks) and other conflict functions
- added missing license headers

fix missing "opencv2/core/opencl" headers from core module (updated install list)

during pre-commit testing

Observed during launch of 32/64-bit applications on Windows.
Added '32-bit' prefix for 32-bit OpenCL devices. No prefix on 64-bit configurations.

This adds the possibility to use multi-channel masks for the functions
cv::mean, cv::meanStdDev and the method Mat::setTo. The tests have now a
probability to use multi-channel masks for operations that support them.
This also includes Mat::copyTo, which supported multi-channel masks
before, but there was no test confirming this.