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AVX-512 Auto-Vectorization in MSVC

February 27, 2020 Feb 27, 2020 02/27/20
Rui Zhang
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 we added AVX-512 support to the auto-vectorizer of the MSVC compiler. This post will show some examples and help you enable it in your projects. What is the auto vectorizer? The compiler’s auto vectorizer analyzes loops in the user’s source code and generates vectorized code for a vectorization target ...

Project Austin Part 3 of 6: Ink Smoothing

October 4, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 10/4/12
Eric Brumer - MSFT
Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the introduction blog post. This blog post describes how we ...

Project Austin Part 2 of 6: Page Curling

September 27, 2012 Sep 27, 2012 09/27/12
Eric Brumer - MSFT
Hi, my name is Eric Brumer. I’m a developer on the C++ compiler optimizer, but I’ve spent some time working on Project Code Name Austin to help showcase the power and performance of C++ in a real-world program. For a general overview of the project, please check out the original blog post. The source code for Austin, including the ...