Processor Optimization Options

The Alpha edition of Visual C++ provides a family of switches that allow you to optimize compiled code for a specific processor within a platform. Processor optimizations are accomplished by a combination of code pattern selection, code scheduling, and instruction selection. Using a processor-specific optimization switch can result in code that will not run on a different processor.

If you do not want to optimize your code for a specific processor, do not use any of these switches. The compiler will then use a blended model, resulting in code that executes well across all processors within a platform family.

For Alpha processors the compiler accepts:

Important   Using a processor optimization switch that enables byte/word support produces code that will not run on previous processors without byte/word support.