thrust::host

static const detail::host_t thrust::host

thrust::host is the default parallel execution policy associated with Thrust’s host backend system configured by the THRUST_HOST_SYSTEM macro.

Instead of relying on implicit algorithm dispatch through iterator system tags, users may directly target algorithm dispatch at Thrust’s host system by providing thrust::host as an algorithm parameter.

Explicit dispatch can be useful in avoiding the introduction of data copies into containers such as thrust::host_vector.

Note that even though thrust::host targets the host CPU, it is a parallel execution policy. That is, the order that an algorithm invokes functors or dereferences iterators is not defined.

The type of thrust::host is implementation-defined.

The following code snippet demonstrates how to use thrust::host to explicitly dispatch an invocation of thrust::for_each to the host backend system:

#include <thrust/for_each.h>
#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
#include <cstdio>

struct printf_functor
{
  __host__ __device__
  void operator()(int x)
  {
    printf("%d\n", x);
  }
};
...
int vec[] = { 0, 1, 2 };

thrust::for_each(thrust::host, vec, vec + 3, printf_functor());

// 0 1 2 is printed to standard output in some unspecified order