A STL-type iterator for vector elements. Elements can be accessed and manipulated. VERY SLOW!!
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template<class SCALARTYPE, unsigned int ALIGNMENT>
class viennacl::vector_iterator< SCALARTYPE, ALIGNMENT >
A STL-type iterator for vector elements. Elements can be accessed and manipulated. VERY SLOW!!
Every dereference operation initiates a transfer from the GPU to the CPU. The overhead of such a transfer is around 50us, so 20.000 dereferences take one second. This is four orders of magnitude slower than similar dereferences on the CPU. However, increments and comparisons of iterators is as fast as for CPU types. If you need a fast iterator, copy the whole vector to the CPU first and iterate over the CPU object, e.g. std::vector<float> temp; copy(gpu_vector, temp); for (std::vector<float>::const_iterator iter = temp.begin(); iter != temp.end(); ++iter) { //do something } copy(temp, gpu_vector); Note that you may obtain inconsistent data if you manipulate entries of gpu_vector in the meanwhile.
- Template Parameters
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SCALARTYPE | The underlying floating point type (either float or double) |
ALIGNMENT | Alignment of the underlying vector, |
- See Also
- vector