C++ AMP

Chapter 12. Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

In this chapter:

Dealing with Tile Size Mismatches

Initializing Arrays

Function Objects vs. Lambdas

Atomic Operations

Additional C++ AMP Features on Windows 8

Time-Out Detection and Recovery

Double-Precision Support

Debugging on Windows 7

Additional Debugging Functions

Deployment

C++ AMP and Windows 8 Windows Store Apps

Using C++ AMP from Managed Code

Summary

This final chapter covers some best practices as well as a few tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of C++ AMP. It also includes some more advanced topics that were not covered in the previous chapters of the book.

Dealing with Tile Size Mismatches

Although C++ AMP tiles are a fixed size that is determined at compile time, the data your application ...