C++ High Performance

Boost Compute

In this book, we have chosen Boost Compute (written by Kyle Lutz) as the library for accessing the GPU. The reasons we picked Boost Compute are that it is very well written, vendor independent, and contains almost all STL algorithms. On top of that, it is a part of Boost, one of the most widely used C++ library.

Throughout this section we will keep a steady focus on the syntactic similarities between Boost Compute and STL algorithms, therefore many Boost Compute code examples will be presented side by side with its equivalent STL algorithm implementation.