Intel on Tuesday announced compilers intended to help developers build threaded applications and optimize performance on multi-core hardware platforms. The Intel Compilers version 9.0 for C++ and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel Corp. is rolling out the first major upgrade of its C++ and Fortran compilers in two years, adding new features to better exploit programming its X86 multi-core processors.

Software developers use compilers to translate a programming language, such as C++ or Fortran, into the machine language understood by the processor. A more efficient compiler results in better ...

Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors.

The increasing acceptance of Linux among developers and researchers has yet to be matched by a similar increase in the number of available development tools. The recently released Intel C++ and ...