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joddy_s_
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‎05-02-2015 07:07 AM
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I'm learning WinAPI and like to play around with C++ for it.
Does the compiler really matters to this kind of task?
What Intel's compiler can do beyond MS C++? What is it for, exactly?
I also want to do some OpenGL programming? Does it help on it?
 

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TimP
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‎05-02-2015 07:49 AM
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As far as winapi calls are concerned, Intel c++ should simply replicate behavior of the active Microsoft compiler.

among many ways Intel c++ goes beyond Microsoft :

Support for most of current c and openMP

More arch options e.g. avx2, Mic

Many more types of auto-vectorization

cilk (TM) plus syntax optionsp

 

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