C++ cache aware programming

Question

is there a way in C++ to determine the CPU\'s cache size? i have an algorithm that processes a lot of data and i\'d like to break this data down into chunks such that they f

Answer 1

Depending on what you're trying to do, you might also leave it to some library. Since you mention multicore processing, you might want to have a look at Intel Threading Building Blocks.

TBB includes cache aware memory allocators. More specifically, check cache_aligned_allocator (in the reference documentation, I couldn't find any direct link).