thrust::minmax_element

Defined in thrust/extrema.h

template<typename DerivedPolicy, typename ForwardIterator> thrust::pair<ForwardIterator, ForwardIterator> thrust::minmax_element(const thrust::detail::execution_policy_base<DerivedPolicy> &exec, ForwardIterator first, ForwardIterator last)

minmax_element finds the smallest and largest elements in the range [first, last). It returns a pair of iterators (imin, imax) where imin is the same iterator returned by min_element and imax is the same iterator returned by max_element. This function is potentially more efficient than separate calls to min_element and max_element.

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

#include <thrust/extrema.h>
#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
...
int data[6] = {1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 3};
thrust::pair<int *, int *> result = thrust::minmax_element(thrust::host, data, data + 6);

// result.first is data + 1
// result.second is data + 5
// *result.first is 0
// *result.second is 3