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Invoke the Intel C++ compiler for IPF Linux64 to compile C applications
Invoke the Intel C++ compiler for IPF Linux64 to compiler C++ applications
Invoke the Intel Fortran compiler for IPF Linux64
Invoke the Intel C++ compiler for IPF Linux64 to compile C applications
Invoke the Intel C++ compiler for IPF Linux64 to compiler C++ applications
Invoke the Intel Fortran compiler for IPF Linux64
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This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
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This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on a Linux system.
This macro indicates that Fortran functions called from C should have their names lower-cased.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler that the main program is not written in Fortran
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on a Linux system.
This macro indicates that Fortran functions called from C should have their names lower-cased.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
Specifies that aliasing should not be assumed in the program.
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized
executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn)
files into a pgopti.dpi file. If you perform multiple
executions of the instrumented program, -Qprof_use merges
the dynamic information files again and overwrites the
previous pgopti.dpi file.
Without any other options, the current directory is
searched for .dyn files
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized
executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn)
files into a pgopti.dpi file. If you perform multiple
executions of the instrumented program, -Qprof_use merges
the dynamic information files again and overwrites the
previous pgopti.dpi file.
Without any other options, the current directory is
searched for .dyn files
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Disables the insertion of software prefetching by the compiler.
Specifies that aliasing should not be assumed in the program.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
Do not assume arguments may be aliased.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
Specifies the percentage multiplier that should be applied to all inlining options that define upper limits: -inline-max-size, -inline-max-total-size, -inline-max-per-routine, and -inline-max-per-compile. This option takes the default value for each of the above options and multiplies it by n divided by 100. For example, if 200 is specified, all inlining options that define upper limits are multiplied by a factor of 2. n is a positive integer specifying the percentage value. The default value is 100 (a factor of 1).
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized
executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn)
files into a pgopti.dpi file. If you perform multiple
executions of the instrumented program, -Qprof_use merges
the dynamic information files again and overwrites the
previous pgopti.dpi file.
Without any other options, the current directory is
searched for .dyn files
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Tells the compiler to assume the program does adhere to the rules defined in the ISO C Standard. The default is to not assume such adherence. If your C/C++ program adheres to these rules, then -ansi-alias will allow the compiler to optimize more aggressively. If it doesn't adhere to these rules, then assuming so can cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized
executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn)
files into a pgopti.dpi file. If you perform multiple
executions of the instrumented program, -Qprof_use merges
the dynamic information files again and overwrites the
previous pgopti.dpi file.
Without any other options, the current directory is
searched for .dyn files
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Specifies the percentage multiplier that should be applied to all inlining options that define upper limits: -inline-max-size, -inline-max-total-size, -inline-max-per-routine, and -inline-max-per-compile. This option takes the default value for each of the above options and multiplies it by n divided by 100. For example, if 200 is specified, all inlining options that define upper limits are multiplied by a factor of 2. n is a positive integer specifying the percentage value. The default value is 100 (a factor of 1).
Instrument program for profiling for the first phase of two-phase profile guided otimization. This instrumentation gathers information about a program's execution paths and data values but does not gather information from hardware performance counters. The profile instrumentation also gathers data for optimizations which are unique to profile-feedback optimization.
Instructs the compiler to produce a profile-optimized
executable and merges available dynamic information (.dyn)
files into a pgopti.dpi file. If you perform multiple
executions of the instrumented program, -Qprof_use merges
the dynamic information files again and overwrites the
previous pgopti.dpi file.
Without any other options, the current directory is
searched for .dyn files
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Specifies that aliasing should not be assumed in the program.
Specifies the percentage multiplier that should be applied to all inlining options that define upper limits: -inline-max-size, -inline-max-total-size, -inline-max-per-routine, and -inline-max-per-compile. This option takes the default value for each of the above options and multiplies it by n divided by 100. For example, if 200 is specified, all inlining options that define upper limits are multiplied by a factor of 2. n is a positive integer specifying the percentage value. The default value is 100 (a factor of 1).
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-static (link libraries statically)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
Enables use of faster but slightly less accurate code sequences for math functions, including sqrt, reciprocal sqrt, divide and reciprocal. When compared to strict IEEE* precision, this option slightly reduces the accuracy of floating-point calculations performed by these functions, usually limited to the least significant digit.
This option also performs reassociation transformations, which can alter the order of operations, over a larger scope. The increased reasssociation enables generation of more optimal sequences of Floating point Multiply Add instructions than not using this option. Note that use of Floating point Multiply Add can cause programs to produce different numerical results due to changes in rounding.
Specifies that aliasing should not be assumed in the program.
This section contains descriptions of flags that were included implicitly by other flags, but which do not have a permanent home at SPEC.
Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations,
such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory
access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed,
such as:
- Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
- Code replication to eliminate branches
- Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow
more efficient cache use.
On Intel Itanium processors, the O3 option enables optimizations
for technical computing applications (loop-intensive code):
loop optimizations and data prefetch.
The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and
memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow
down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations.
The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily
use floating-point calculations and process large data sets.
Enables optimizations for speed. This is the generally recommended
optimization level. This option also enables:
- Inlining of intrinsics
- Intra-file interprocedural optimizations, which include:
- inlining
- constant propagation
- forward substitution
- routine attribute propagation
- variable address-taken analysis
- dead static function elimination
- removal of unreferenced variables
- The following capabilities for performance gain:
- constant propagation
- copy propagation
- dead-code elimination
- global register allocation
- global instruction scheduling and control speculation
- loop unrolling
- optimized code selection
- partial redundancy elimination
- strength reduction/induction variable simplification
- variable renaming
- exception handling optimizations
- tail recursions
- peephole optimizations
- structure assignment lowering and optimizations
- dead store elimination
Enables optimizations for speed and disables some optimizations that
increase code size and affect speed.
To limit code size, this option:
- Enables global optimization; this includes data-flow analysis,
code motion, strength reduction and test replacement, split-lifetime
analysis, and instruction scheduling.
- Disables intrinsic recognition and intrinsics inlining.
The O1 option may improve performance for applications with very large
code size, many branches, and execution time not dominated by code within loops.
On IPF Linux64 platforms, -O1 disable software pipelining and global code scheduling.
On Intel Itanium processors, this option also enables optimizations for server applications
(straight-line and branch-like code with a flat profile).
-unroll0, -fbuiltin, -mno-ieee-fp, -fomit-frame-pointer (same as -fp), -ffunction-sections
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times (n) to unroll loops.
Enables inline expansion of all intrinsic functions.
Disables conformance to the ANSI C and IEEE 754 standards for floating-point arithmetic.
Allows use of EBP as a general-purpose register in optimizations.
Places each function in its own COMDAT section.
Multi-file ip optimizations that includes:
- inline function expansion
- interprocedural constant propogation
- dead code elimination
- propagation of function characteristics
- passing arguments in registers
- loop-invariant code motion
-static prevents linking with shared libraries.
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