The Software Optimization Cookbook

Annotation Four Intel experts explain the techniques and tools that you can use to improve the performance of applications for IA-32 processors. Simple explanations and code examples help you to develop software that benefits from Intel? Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel? EM64T), multi-core processing, Hyper-Threading Technology, OpenMP*, and multimedia extensions. This book guides you through the growing collection of software tools, compiler switches, and coding optimizations, showing you efficient ways to get the best performance from software applications.