Faster Compilation Times for CUDA Code

Posted on July 24, 2019 by admin

NVIDIA CUDA / GPU Programming

If code in a .cu file calls CUDA Runtime API functions but contains no ‘__device__’ code, rename the file to .cpp and compile it with the host compiler. You’ll get faster compilation time, which adds up in a large project.

-Courtesy of Mark Harris at NVIDIA

Tags: .cpp file, .cu file, .cu vs .cpp, cuda, cuda compilation times, cuda device function, cuda host function, cudax, device function, host function

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