The Intel® C++ Compiler allows your software to perform best on computers based on the Intel architecture. Using new compiler optimizations, such as the profile-guided optimization, prefetch instruction and support for Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), the Intel C++ Compiler provides high performance.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| High Performance | achieve a significant performance gain by using optimizations |
| Support for Streaming SIMD Extensions | advantage of new Intel microarchitecture |
| Automatic vectorizer | advantage of SIMD parallelism in your code achieved automatically |
| OpenMP* Support | shared memory parallel programming |
| Floating-point optimizations | improved floating-point performance |
| Data prefetching | improved performance due to the accelerated data delivery |
| Interprocedural optimizations | larger application modules perform better |
| Profile-guided optimization | improved performance based on profiling frequently-used procedures |
| Processor dispatch | taking advantage of the latest Intel architecture features while maintaining
object code compatibility with previous generations of Intel |