Advanced optimizations boost performance

The compilers and libraries in Intel® Composer XE offer advanced vectorization support, including support for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX). The C/C++ optimizing compiler now includes Intel® Parallel Building Blocks (Intel® PBB), which expands the types of problems that can be solved with increased scale and reliability, while also simplifying the process.

Advanced Performance Features

• Intel® Parallel Building Blocks (Intel® PBB) and OpenMP* 3.0 simplifies implementing efficient parallel code.

• Optimized libraries provide math functions in Intel® Math Kernel Library and functions in many other domains like compression, crypto, and image processing in Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives provide automatic parallelization and performance.

• High-Performance Parallel Optimizer (HPO) offers an improved ability to analyze, optimize, and parallelize more loop nests.

• Interprocedural Optimization (IPO) dramatically improves performance of small- or medium-sized functions that are used frequently, especially programs that contain calls within loops.

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• Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) improves application performance by reducing instruction-cache thrashing, reorganizing code layout, shrinking code size, and reducing branch mispredictions.

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New Fortran Features

Intel® Fortran Compiler XE 12.0 also includes several advances, among them more complete support for the Fortran 2003 standard and some support for Fortran 2008 standards, including Co-Array Fortran, vector optimizations with Intel® AVX, and help in auto-parallelization, for the highest performance and parallelism on the latest x86 multicore CPUs.

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Reliability

Intel® Inspector XE memory, thread and security analyzer; Finds and pinpoints memory and threading errors before they happen.

Security and Quality

Intel® Parallel Studio XE enables developers to effectively find software security vulnerabilities through Static Security Analysis (SSA).
Read the Static Security Analysis Evaluation Guide.

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Tune for Increased Serial and Parallel Performance

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE performance profiler finds bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance.? Improvements include more intuitive interface, fast