February 1994 / State Of The Art

Today's Compilers Major C++ Compilers	It's a brave new world for compi ler makers. New CPUs, new operating systems, and demands for programmer productivity call for compilers that produce faster code--and produce code faster. - by Frank Hayes
Compiler Benchmarks: How Useful?	Benchmarks offer an easy way to quantify compiler performance, making lots of spiffy tables. - by Allen I. Holub
Optimizing For Today's CPUs Listing: Loop Compaction Listing: Strip Mining Optimization Techniques	Modern compilers employ a full bag of tricks to make programs execute efficiently and to take full advantage of the special abilities of the new superscalar processors - by Alex Lane
Optimizing with Pre- and Post-Compilers	People talk about compilation as if it were a single process. - by Kevin Dowd
Pentium Optimizations	When Watcom International revamped its C/C++ compilers to take advantage of the Pentium's superscalar architecture, the company got an unintended bonus: integer code that executes substantially faster on 486s.
Developing For Multiple Platforms	Businesses expect software to run on Macintosh, DOS, Windows, and Unix. Moving an application to another platform is a daunting task that can change a developer's approach to writing software. - by Douglas K. Olson
Porting Adobe Photoshop: A Case Study	In the course of developing and porting Adobe Photoshop, a package for editing images, Adobe engineers have learned a number of lessons.
Compilers For Parallel CPUs	New computers using multiple CPUs may increase t hroughput considerably --providing the compiler understands how to build code for the specific machine - by Oliver Sharp
Types of Parallel Machines	DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY ARCHITECTURE A computer network is one form of distributed-memory machine.
Converting an Application for Parallel Processing Listing: Master/Slave Parallel Processing	Imagine that you are trying to implement a simple climate model on a distributed-memory parallel machine.

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