Re: Cache Size

From: Jeff Hammond (jeff.science_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-09-30 21:58:02

I recommend https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ as a widely portable
library for querying L1D size and many other architectural properties.
Clearly, this isn't in the Boost family, nor is it even C++, but it seems
imprudent to try reimplement hwloc in Boost.

Jeff

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:30 PM Matt Borland via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> A recurring discussion in Boost.Math has been needing a cross-platform way
> to query the L1D cache size of a machine. I have most of a solution in a
> [personal repo](https://github.com/mborland/cache). It did not make sense
> to us to have this in Boost.Math because it would be useful outside of that
> scope, but we did not know where it should go. Is there an existing library
> where this would fit? If necessary I can roll it into a library submission
> that exposes the functionality of CPUID.
>
> Matt
>
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