The IntelŪ Fortran Compiler enables your software to perform the best on Intel architecture-based computers. Using new compiler optimizations, such as the whole-program optimization and profile-guided optimization, prefetch instruction and support for Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), the Intel Fortran Compiler provides high performance.
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Feature |
Benefit |
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High Performance |
Achieve a significant performance gain by using optimizations |
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Support for Streaming SIMD Extensions |
Advantage of new Intel microarchitecture |
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Automatic vectorizer |
Advantage of parallelism in your code achieved automatically |
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Parallelization |
Automatic generation of multithreaded code for loops. Shared memory parallel programming with OpenMP*. |
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Floating-point optimizations |
Improved floating-point performance |
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Data prefetching |
Improved performance due to the accelerated data delivery |
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Interprocedural optimizations |
Larger application source files perform better |
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Whole program optimization |
Improved performance between modules in larger applications |
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Profile-guided optimization |
Improved performance based on profiling the frequently used procedure |
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Processor dispatch |
Taking advantage of the latest Intel architecture features while maintaining object code compatibility with previous generations of IntelŪ PentiumŪ Processors. |