Conventions

Compiler Options Quick Reference

This tutorial introduces the major optimization options that you can use to improve the performance of your applications, along with a brief description of each option. Click the following button at the bottom of each of of these pages to see a Quick Reference with more detailed information about each of these options:

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Some topics contain more information than can appear on the screen at once. Be sure to pay attention to the presence of the scroll bar to know if you have read all the content in a topic.

Names of Intel® Compiler Options on Microsoft* Windows* and Linux*

Although this tutorial includes information about both the Microsoft* Windows* and the Linux* versions of the Intel® compilers, the name of a compiler option on Windows is often used as a generic reference to an option that runs on both Windows and Linux.

Information Specific to a Processor or Architecture

Some topics in this tutorial discuss information that is specific to a processor or architecture. The following icons indicate when such is the case:

	Information specific to the IA-32 architecture
	Information specific to the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
	Information specific to the Itanium® architecture