Compilers: Intel Compilers for C++ and Fortran, Version 10.0
for IA32/EM64T-based applications in Linux_x64
Operating system: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
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/opt/intel/cce/10.0.023/bin/icc invokes the 64-bit Intel C compiler.
Also used to invoke linker for 64-bit C programs.
/opt/intel/cce/10.0.023/bin/icpc invokes the 64-bit Intel C++ compiler.
Also used to invoke linker for 64-bit C++ programs.
Invoke the 64-bit Intel Fortran compiler.
Also used to invoke linker for 64-bit programs
in Fortran and C/Fortran mixtures.
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This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
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Definitions for LP64 systems
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
This option is used to indicate that the host system's integers are 32-bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64-bits wide. Not all benchmarks recognize this macro, but the preferred practice for data model selection applies the flags to all benchmarks; this flag description is a placeholder for those benchmarks that do not recognize this macro.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler to ignore the main routine in Fortran
This flag is used to indicate that the target system uses the LP64 data model, where longs and pointers are 64 bits wide.
For mixed-language benchmarks, tell the compiler to ignore the main routine in Fortran
This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on a system where integers are 32 bits wide, and longs and pointers are 64 bits wide.
This macro indicates that the benchmark is being compiled on a Linux system.
This macro indicates that Fortran functions called from C should have their names lower-cased.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-xT (generate code specialized for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processors, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad processors and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors with SSSE3)
-no-prec-div (disable -prec-div) where -prec-div improves precision of FP divides (some speed impact)
-static (statically link libraries during compilation)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-xT (generate code specialized for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processors, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad processors and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors with SSSE3)
-no-prec-div (disable -prec-div) where -prec-div improves precision of FP divides (some speed impact)
-static (statically link libraries during compilation)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-xT (generate code specialized for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processors, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad processors and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors with SSSE3)
-no-prec-div (disable -prec-div) where -prec-div improves precision of FP divides (some speed impact)
-static (statically link libraries during compilation)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
The -fast option enhances execution speed across the entire program by including the following options that can improve run-time performance:
-O3 (maximum speed and high-level optimizations)
-ipo (enables interprocedural optimizations across files)
-xT (generate code specialized for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processors, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad processors and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors with SSSE3)
-no-prec-div (disable -prec-div) where -prec-div improves precision of FP divides (some speed impact)
-static (statically link libraries during compilation)
To override one of the options set by /fast, specify that option after the -fast option on the command line. The options set by /fast may change from release to release.
This section contains descriptions of flags that were included implicitly by other flags, but which do not have a permanent home at SPEC.
Builds on -01 and -02 optimizations by enabling high-level optimization. This level does not guarantee higher performance unless loop and memory access transformation take place. In conjunction with -axK/-xK and -axW/-xW, this switch causes the compiler to perform more aggressive data dependency analysis than for -O2. This may result in longer compilation times. On Linux platforms, -O3 sets the following:
-fp
Disable using EBP as general purpose register.
This is the default level of optimization. Optimizes for speed. The -O2 option includes O1 optimizations and in addition enables inlining of intrinsics and more speed optimizations.
optimize for speed, but disable some optimizations which increase code size for a small speed benefit. Includes inline expansion except for intrinsic functions, global optimizations, string pooling optimizations. On Linux platforms, -O1 sets the following:
-unroll0, -fno-builtin -mno-ieee-fp -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections
Tells the compiler the maximum number of times to unroll loops.
Disables inline expansion of all intrinsic functions.
Enables improved floating-point consistency. Floating-point operations are not reordered and the result of each floating-point operation is stored in the target variable rather than being kept in the floating- point processor for use in a subsequent calculation. This is the same as specifying -fltconsistency or -mp.
The default, -mno-ieee-fp, provides better accuracy and run-time per- formance at the expense of less consistent floating-point results.
Enable using EBP as general purpose register.
Separate functions for the linker (COMDAT). Same as -fdata-sections.
Multi-file ip optimizations that includes:
- inline function expansion
- interprocedural constant propogation
- dead code elimination
- propagation of function characteristics
- passing arguments in registers
- loop-invariant code motion
Code is optimized for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo processors, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad processors and Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors with SSSE3. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.
Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.
This option prevents linking with shared libraries. It causes the executable to link all libraries statically.
(disable/enable[default] -Qprec-div[-]) (Windows) [-no]-prec-div (Linux)
-Qprec-dev (Windows) and -prec-div (Linux) improves precision of floating-point divides. It has a slight impact on speed. -Qprec-dev- (Windows) and -no-prec-div (Linux) disables this option and enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division.
When you specify -Qprec-dev- (Windows) or -no-prec-div (Linux) along with some optimizations, such as -xN and -xB (Linux) or /QxN and /QxB (Windows), the compiler may change floating-point division computations into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator. For example, A/B is computed as A * (1/B) to improve the speed of the computation.
However, sometimes the value produced by this transformation is not as accurate as full IEEE division. When it is important to have fully precise IEEE division, do not use -Qprec-dev- (Windows) or -no-prec-div (Linux) which will enable the default -Qprec-dev (Windows) or -prec-div (Linux) and the result is more accurate, with some loss of performance.
submit= MYMASK=`printf '0x%x' \$((1<<\$SPECCOPYNUM))`; /usr/bin/taskset \$MYMASK $command
When running multiple copies of benchmarks, the SPEC config file feature submit is sometimes used to cause individual jobs to be bound to specific processors. This specific submit command is used for Linux. The description of the elements of the command are:
ulimit -s
Sets the stack size to n kbytes, or unlimited to allow the stack size to grow without limit.
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