Posted on Friday, January 27 2012 @ 14:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The leading open-source code compilers -- namely the GNU
Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM/Clang -- now have maturing support
for Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture with further optimizations
for the forthcoming Ivy Bridge successor. With the current and
next-generation Intel support covered, open-source compiler developers
have already moved onto beginning work for supporting Intel's Haswell
microarchitecture that will not be launched until 2013. Read more
at Phoronix.