SPEC CPU2006 Flag Description for the Linux Intel(R) C++ Compiler 9.1 for EM64T-based applications and Intel(R) Fortran Compiler 9.1 for EM64T-based applications

Compilers:

Intel Compilers for C++ and Fortran, Version 9.1; Copyright © 2006 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.


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Optimization Flags


Portability Flags


Compiler Flags


System and Other Tuning Information

Platform settings

Adjacent Sector Prefetch (Default = Enabled):

This BIOS option allows the enabling/disabling of a processor mechanism to fetch the adjacent cache line within an 128-byte sector that contains the data needed due to a cache line miss.

In some limited cases, setting this option to Disabled may improve performance. In the majority of cases, the default value of Enabled provides better performance. Users should only disable this option after performing application benchmarking to verify improved performance in their environment.

submit= MYMASK=`printf '0x%x' \$((1<<\$SPECCOPYNUM))`; /usr/bin/taskset \$MYMASK $command

When running multiple copies of benchmarks, the SPEC config file feature submit is sometimes used to cause individual jobs to be bound to specific processors. This specific submit command is used for Linux. The description of the elements of the command are:

ulimit -s (Linux)

Sets the stack size to n kbytes, or unlimited to allow the stack size to grow without limit.