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Sun Studio 12 Update 1 is the latest production release of Sun Studio software. Available on Solaris, OpenSolaris and the latest Linux distributions, this release contains new features and enhancements that simplify multicore development, increase application runtime performance and enhance developer productivity.

Feature Highlights:

  • Optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers: The Sun Studio compilers generate improved binary application performance on Intel x86, AMD x86, UltraSPARC and SPARC64-based systems. With dozens of recent industry-based benchmarks, Sun Studio compilers take full advantage of the latest multicore architectures.
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  • Full OpenMP 3.0 compiler, debugger and tools support: The OpenMP 3.0 specification contains new features to ease multicore development. Take a more general approach to multithreaded programming by using tasks to support complex and dynamic control flows.
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  • DLight: System profiling tools allow you to explore your system, understand how it works and track down performance problems across may software layers. DLight is a new tool which unifies application profiling and system profiling using DTrace technology on Solaris platforms.
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  • dbxTool: The dbx Debugger is fully integrated into the IDE and available via command line. Sun Studio 12 Update 1 now features dbxtool, a stand-alone debugging solution with a user-friendly interface. Quickly and easily debug an executable, core file or attach to a running process.
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  • Performance analysis of MPI applications: The Performance Analyzer includes an MPI Timeline, MPI charts, zooming and filtering capabilities and with Sun HPC ClusterTools, clock-profiling MPI experiments show 2 new metrics: MPI Work Time and MPI Wait Time.
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  • Updated Sun Studio IDE: Sun Studio features a next-generation IDE based on NetBeans 6.5.1 software, specifically geared for C/C++ developers. New features include improved code completion, error highlighting, semantic highlighting, call graph, memory window, packaging of application as tar files, zip files, SVR4 packages, RPMs, or Debian packages, and much more.
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Documentation:

Complete Sun Studio documentation for current and previous releases includes release notes and reference manuals, on docs.sun.com, man pages, tutorials, and ReadMes for each major software component, on this web site. See also the technical articles that discuss and demonstrate the use of many important features of the compilers and tools. See the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Documentation index page.


 
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