C / C++ and STL
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Before everyone gets really upset with the rest of this post, as is the trend in the OO community… I thought I’d start, rather than end, with a disclaimer: I use C++ and STL on a daily basis in my job, although I don’t use all of what stl has to offer it does make coding in c++ much easier. C++ in itself does allow fairly elegant code (if constructed carefully) whilst providing a decent level of code performance. So I do actually like C++ and stl and they make my life at work much better 
But this blog isn’t about my day job…. It’s about my tinkering with the wonderful world of parallel algorithms and CUDA code.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that you *can* use stl, c++ classes and templates in a .cu file. As long as its client side code you should be fine. I’ve had a few compiler crashes when using stl especially the sort. To sort this out I used the overloaded < operator in your class, don’t try and define a custom < method it will crash the compiler.