VC++ Blog Tour Stop: Content Part 3: Making Your Application Better

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Optimizations

There are primarily two major optimization features in the 2005 release, whole program optimization and profile guided optimization, and also new specialized support for newer processors (/G7 for Pentium 4 processors) along with significantly improved mixed targeting and improved speed optimization and better precision of floating point operations.  Because of the basic improvements in the compiler, you will see an average performance improvement in the range of 10-30%, dependin