Facilities For Querying Hardware Properties

When writing certain types of low level functionality, information about hardware specific properties such as the size of cache lines is needed in order to produce optimal code. Support for these queries is provided via the following header:

#include "arene/base/compiler_support/hardware_queries.hpp"

Provided Queries For Hardware Properties

Query	Description
arene::base::hardware_destructive_interference_size	An approximate backport of std::hardware_destructive_interference_size. This defines the minimum memory spacing required between two items to prevent false sharing.