Sun Studio software delivers high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both
Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including the latest multi-core systems.
What's New
OpenSolaris 2008.05 is Now Available
Take your idea from experiment to global deployment on a single platform in a
familiar environment. Complete with free, built-in features, OpenSolaris can
be deployed on nearly 1000 systems.
Using Sun Studio with the GCC Tool Chain
Sun Studio can interoperate with the GCC tool chain in different ways.
This page discusses the different kinds of interoperability and what the caveats
are.
Sun Studio Express - February 2008 Build
Sun Studio Express 2/08 sports an updated IDE (based on NetBeans IDE 6.0), Project D-Light, updated
compilers and optimized code generation (e.g. SSSE3) as well as improved RTC support on x86-based platforms.
New Solaris Application Programming Book!
This brand new tome is a comprehensive guide to optimizing the performance of applications running on the Solaris operating system. It covers the fundamentals of system performance, using analysis and optimization tools to their fullest, and shows you how to get the most from Solaris systems and applications. It's available on Safari Online and Sun Books.
Optimal Sun Studio compiler options for MySQL
This blog entry describes the changes that were made to improve MySQL
performance using Sun Studio in SXDE 01/08. Sun Studio was used to compile MySQL
on both Solaris SPARC and Solaris AMD64 platform.
has a new doc information center that points to all the manuals, release notes, readmes, man pages, etc.
Benchmarks
World Record Performance
The Sun Fire X2100 M2 server, equipped with next-generation AMD Opteron Model 1218 Series processors, demonstrated outstanding performance on the SPEC
CPU2000 benchmark, including a World Record floating point throughput result for all single socket x86 systems.
