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Do You Prefer Fast or Precise?

October 19, 2015 Oct 19, 2015 10/19/15

Jim Hogg

What is this Blog About? My name is Jim Hogg, a Program Manager in the Compilers team. We would like your feedback on a feature of the Visual C++ compiler that affects the code we generate for floating-point operations. Your answers will help determine what we do. You can vote via survey -- it should not take you more than a few minutes to ...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 12 (Mar 19, 2011)

March 19, 2011 Mar 19, 2011 03/19/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

Read in this issue: [Patterns and Practices] Parallel Programming with MS Visual C++ (online guidance) [CodeProject] 3-D Software Rendering Engine – Part I [Viva64] Lessons on Development of 64-bit Applications [Vlad Lazarenko] C++ Exception Handling and Performance [Channel 9] Kate Gregory on Being a Most Valuable ...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 General Availability

March 10, 2011 Mar 10, 2011 03/10/11

Diego Dagum - MSFT

If you guys follow Jason Zander’s (Visual Studio corporate Vice President) blog, you learned two days ago that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 whose Beta had been released last December achieved final release stage. Today is generally available (last Tuesday was only for MSDN subscribers). You can get it from here. Let’s ...

How we test the compiler backend

June 1, 2010 Jun 1, 2010 06/1/10

Visual CPP Team

My name is Alex Thaman and I am a Senior Test Lead on the Visual C++ compiler team at Microsoft. The focus of this blog is testing of the compiler backend where I’ve spent a good portion of my time here. For those not aware, this is the part of the compiler that takes an intermediate representation as an input, does ...

Visual C++ Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010

November 2, 2009 Nov 2, 2009 11/2/09

Visual CPP Team

Hello, I’m Ten Tzen, a Compiler Architect on the Visual C++ Compiler Code Generation team. Today, I’m going to introduce some noteworthy improvements in Visual Studio 2010. Faster LTCG Compilation: LTCG (Link Time Code Generation) allows the compiler to perform better optimizations with information on all modules in the...

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