From 7252fe04076cc1a42892fb2add8b2e1660f6fc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Demidov Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 06:34:59 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Fix FAQ section regarding differences with existing libraries Mention that VexCL is in fact may use Boost.Compute as a backend. --- doc/faq.qbk | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.qbk b/doc/faq.qbk index e5785ce40..bde7959f1 100644 --- a/doc/faq.qbk +++ b/doc/faq.qbk @@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ VexCL is an expression-template based linear-algebra library for OpenCL. The aims and scope are a bit different from the Boost Compute library. VexCL is closer in nature to the Eigen library while Boost.Compute is closer to the C++ standard library. I don't feel that -Boost.Compute really fills the same role as VexCL and in fact VexCL -could be built on top of Boost.Compute. +Boost.Compute really fills the same role as VexCL. In fact, the recent versions +of VexCL allow to use Boost.Compute as one of the backends, which makes +the interaction between the two libraries a breeze. + + Also see this StackOverflow question: [@http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20154179/differences-between-vexcl-thrust-and-boost-compute]