Bran Hagger

Improved OpenMP Support for C++ in Visual Studio

February 9th, 2021

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 we shipped the first stage in our plan to support newer versions of the OpenMP standard in C++ under the -openmp:llvm flag. This flag currently enables several correctness fixes and the use of unsigned integers in parallel for loops.

AVX2 floating point improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5

February 28th, 2020

Visual Studio version 16.2 provided a number of improvements to C++ video game development through vector optimizations. Visual Studio version 16.5 builds on these changes to improve the performance of even more vector operations.