Hi all,
Some time ago, I remember coming on the forum and being taught by others not to use the cutil functions in my code (e.g. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=163224). However, I can’t seem to “re-find” the reasons why one wouldn’t want to use the cutil functions in your code. In looking at the README for the cutil functions, it mentions the following:
“These macros are compiled out in release builds and so they will not affect performance. Note that in debug mode they call cudaThreadSynchronize() to ensure that kernel execution has completed, which can affect performance.”
Is that simply it? Or are there other/better/different reasons not to use the cutil functions in your code?
Thanks,
Matt