Add templated mergers

Add templated SOACollectionMerger and VectorOfObjectsMerger, to make merging of SOACollection-based classes and std::vector<Object> collections easier.

Event/EventBase/include/Event/SOACollectionMerger.h

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+/** @class SOACollectionMerger.h SOACollectionMerger
+ *
+ *  Merge SOACollections into one. Template to work with all containers based on SOACollection.
+ *
+ *  @author Michel De Cian
+ *  @date   05/07/2022
+ */
+
+#include "Event/SOACollection.h"
+#include "LHCbAlgs/MergingTransformer.h"
+#include <string>
+namespace LHCb {
+
+  template <typename Type>
+  struct SOACollectionMerger final
+      : Algorithm::MergingTransformer<Type( const Gaudi::Functional::vector_of_const_<Type>& )> {
+    SOACollectionMerger( const std::string& name, ISvcLocator* pSvcLocator )
+        : Algorithm::MergingTransformer<Type( const Gaudi::Functional::vector_of_const_<Type>& )>{
+              name, pSvcLocator, {"InputLocations", {}}, {"OutputLocation", {}}} {}
+
+    Type operator()( const Gaudi::Functional::vector_of_const_<Type>& lists ) const override {
+
+      if ( lists.size() == 0 ) return {};
+
+      Type        out( lists[0].zipIdentifier(), lists[0].get_allocator() );
+      std::size_t overallSize = 0;
+      for ( const auto& list : lists ) overallSize += list.size();
+
+      out.reserve( overallSize );
+      m_nbObjectsCounter += overallSize;
+
+      for ( const auto& list : lists ) {
+
+        if ( list.empty() ) continue;
+        for ( const auto& obj : list.simd() ) {
+          out.template copy_back<SIMDWrapper::best::types>( list, obj.offset(), obj.loop_mask() );
+        }
+      }
+
+      return out;
+    }
+
+  private:
+    mutable Gaudi::Accumulators::SummingCounter<> m_nbObjectsCounter{this, "Nb of Merged Objects"};
+  };
+} // namespace LHCb