Intel C Compiler for Windows description
Intel Compilers help Windows software run at top speeds

Intel Compilers help Windows software run at top speeds.

Using Intel Compilers, developers will be able to write high-performance software applications for desktops, servers, mobile phones and handheld devices.

These compilers are compatible with existing development environments on Windows so it's easy to start using them.

They are binary compatible with leading development environments such as Microsoft Visual C++* 6.0 and .NET. The Fortran compilers are largely source compatible with Compaq Visual Fortran.

Every purchase of an Intel Software Development Product includes one year of support services, which provides access to Intel Premier Support and all product updates during that time.

Here are some key features of "Intel C Compiler for Windows":

· Advanced optimization features provide an easy and fast way to get optimal performance from applications
· Compatible with development tools most programmers already use for Windows application development
· Comprehensive support direct from Intel keeps current with the latest compiler releases


Advanced Optimization features:
· Multithreaded Application Support, including OpenMP and auto-parallelization for simple and efficient software threading.
· Interprocedural Optimization (IPO) dramatically improves performance of small- or medium-sized functions that are used frequently, especially programs that contain calls within loops.
· Profile-guided Optimization (PGO) improves application performance by reducing instruction-cache thrashing, reorganizing code layout, shrinking code size, and reducing branch mispredictions.
· Automatic Vectorizer parallelizes code and aligns data, including loop peeling to generate aligned loads and loop unrolling to match the prefetch of a full cache line.
· High Level Optimization (HLO) delivers aggressive optimization with loop transformation and pre-fetching.
· Optimized Code Debugging with the Intel® Debugger improves the efficiency of the debugging process on code that has been optimized for Intel® architecture.


Requirements:

· Processor - A system based on an IA-32 processor, Intel® Pentium® II processor or greater at 450 MHz (Intel® Itanium® 2 processor, Processor with Intel® EM64T, AMD Athlon* or Opteron* processor)
· RAM - IA-32: 256MB, Other: 512MB
· Disk Space 300 MB of free hard disk space, plus an additional 300 MB during installation for download and temporary files.
· 100 MB of hard disk space for the virtual memory paging file. Be sure to use at least the minimum amount of virtual memory recommended by the operating system


Limitations:

· This copy is valid for 30 days, and comes with customer support during the 30-day evaluation period.