Sun Studio What's New

May 2008
Using Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) with Sun Studio 12
Discover how to use Sun Studio to build Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB), an open-source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs.

May 2008
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.

April 2008
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.

April 2008
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.

March 2008
Debugging the JVM Using dbx
See how to use the Sun Studio tool dbx to debug a particularly thorny JVM crash on a Solaris x86 system.

February 2008
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.

February 2008
Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 Now Available!
This Solaris release, built from the open source OpenSolaris code, includes the latest version of NetBeans, an integrated web application stack and ClusterTools to help you create Solaris, Java and Web 2.0 applications. Learn more, download, or have a DVD.

January 2008
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.

January 2008
Tocarema Powers Up
For its automated trading platform, startup TBricks (formerly Tocarema) had an impressive list of requirements for its C/C++ toolchain. They turned to Sun Microsystems and its Sun Studio 12 software. See how they did it!