Re: [boost] [Proposal] Adding CPUID Library in Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [Proposal] Adding CPUID Library in Boost
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-08 09:25:56

On 08/12/12 04:39, Shakti Misra wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been looking at nt2 for some time. It looks like a nice addition.
> But there is very less documentation, this led me to use AMD's SSEPlus.

I personally don't find this library very compelling, but whatever helps 
you get stuff done.

I noted your problems with nt2 and lack of documentation.

> Apart from that any plans to add detection of below:
> number of cores or logical CPUs, cache sizes, CPU clock etc?

There is some of this in nt2, but not as part of the SIMD subcomponent.