On 12/12/2012 06.05, Shakti Misra wrote:
I think if you look at the source of SSEPlus from AMD they are doing it at runtime. They have a CPUID functionality to get the correct SEE level, and dispatch to the correct intrinsic as per it. I do not have a perfect use case, but in gaming applications it can be beneficial to see if the GPU is present at run time, so as to use GPU or not. Mostly games would be compiled and supplied to the end user.
This fact of GPU check at runtime seems a poor argument to me. If the GPU is present then what? You need anyway to rely on DirectXXXX or on OpenGL anyway. If you want to instead use the GPU for GPGPU you can try to issue an OpenCL command and or CUDA one. So the fact you can via boost (!) detect if the GPU is present or not is like the 0.001% of the work. Regards Gaetano Mendola