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I’d like my program to read the cache line size of the CPU it’s running on in C++.
I know that this can’t be done portably, so I will need a solution for Linux and another for Windows (Solutions for other systems could be useful to others, so post them if you know them).
For Linux I could read the content of /proc/cpuinfo and parse the line beginning with cache_alignment. Maybe there is a better way involving a call to an API.
For Windows I simply have no idea.
On Win32,
GetLogicalProcessorInformationwill give you back aSYSTEM_LOGICAL_PROCESSOR_INFORMATIONwhich contains aCACHE_DESCRIPTOR, which has the information you need.