thrust::inclusive_scan

Defined in thrust/scan.h

template<typename DerivedPolicy, typename InputIterator, typename OutputIterator, typename AssociativeOperator> OutputIterator thrust::inclusive_scan(const thrust::detail::execution_policy_base<DerivedPolicy> &exec, InputIterator first, InputIterator last, OutputIterator result, AssociativeOperator binary_op)

inclusive_scan computes an inclusive prefix sum operation. The term ‘inclusive’ means that each result includes the corresponding input operand in the partial sum. When the input and output sequences are the same, the scan is performed in-place.

inclusive_scan is similar to std::partial_sum in the STL. The primary difference between the two functions is that std::partial_sum guarantees a serial summation order, while inclusive_scan requires associativity of the binary operation to parallelize the prefix sum.

Results are not deterministic for pseudo-associative operators (e.g., addition of floating-point types). Results for pseudo-associative operators may vary from run to run.

The algorithm’s execution is parallelized as determined by exec.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use inclusive_scan to compute an in-place prefix sum using the thrust::host execution policy for parallelization:

int data[10] = {-5, 0, 2, -3, 2, 4, 0, -1, 2, 8};

thrust::maximum<int> binary_op;

thrust::inclusive_scan(thrust::host, data, data + 10, data, binary_op); // in-place scan

// data is now {-5, 0, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8}