Optimizing Applications: Overview

This is the second volume in a two-volume Intel® Fortran Compiler User's Guide.

It covers the following topics:

Programming for high performance using the Intel Fortran Compiler:

• Setting Data Type and Alignment

• Using Arrays Efficiently

• Improving I/O Performance

• Improving Run-time Efficiency

• Using Intrinsics for Itanium-based Systems

• Coding Guidelines for Intel Architectures

Analyzing and timing your application:

• Using Intel Performance Analysis Tools

• Timing Your Application

Implementing Intel Fortran Compiler optimizations:

• Optimizing the Compilation Process

• Efficient Compilation

• Stack Options for Automatic Allocation and Checking

• Alignment Options

• Symbol Visibility Attribute Options

• Options to Optimize Different Application Types

• Floating Point Arithmetic Optimizations

• Optimizing for Specific Processors

• Interprocedural Optimizations

• Profile-guided Optimizations

• High-level Language Optimizations (HLO)

Parallel programming with Intel Fortran:

• Auto-vectorization (IA-32 Only)

• Auto-parallelization

• Parallelization with OpenMP*

• Debugging Multi-Threaded Programs

Optimization support features:

• Compiler Directives

• Optimizations and Debugging

• Optimizer Report Generation

For information on new features in this release, see the topic titled What's New in This Release, in Volume I. Also refer to the product Release Notes.