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C++ IDE Performance Improvement in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

August 5, 2013 Aug 5, 2013 08/5/13
Li Shao [MSFT]
My name is Li Shao. I am a Senior Software Design Engineer in Test on the VC++ team. In this blog, I would like to share the performance enhancements we've made in VS 2013 Preview to improve the C++ IDE and build system. Performance is a vital part of software quality. Over the last couple of releases we have made significant performance ...

Optimizing C++ Code : Overview

June 12, 2013 Jun 12, 2013 06/12/13
Jim Hogg
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning. This post explains the flow of data within the Visual C++ compiler – starting with our C++ source program, and ending with a corresponding binary program. This post is an easy one – dipping our toes into the shallow end of...

Optimizing C++ Code

May 29, 2013 May 29, 2013 05/29/13
Jim Hogg
Hi, my name is Jim Hogg and I am a Program Manager, working in the Visual C++ compiler team in Microsoft, based on the main campus here in Redmond. More specifically, I work in the part of the compiler that optimizes your code, to make it run faster, or to make it smaller, or a mixture of the two. In this series of blog posts, I will explain ...

Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO

April 4, 2013 Apr 4, 2013 04/4/13
Ankit Asthana
I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. For today's topic I want to blog about a really cool runtime compiler optimization called Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) (we on the team call it POGO or PGO for short). PGO was initiated by the Visual C and Microsoft Research groups in the late 90's and primarily ...

Troubleshooting Tips for IntelliSense Slowness

March 29, 2011 Mar 29, 2011 03/29/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) Hi, my name is Andy Rich and I’m a QA on the C++ front-end compiler. The IntelliSense system in Visual Studio 2010 comes with far greater power, flexibility, and accuracy, but these improvements come at the cost of greater complexity. The goal of this article is to assist you in troubleshooting this complex system, and give you a...

The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 4 (Jan 22, 2010)

January 22, 2011 Jan 22, 2011 01/22/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
Paperli.PaperWidget.Show({ pid: 'visualc/news', width: 200, background: '#000666' }) Greetings!! The 4th issue of The Visual C++ Weekly is out there. This issue starts with an article due to C++ MVP Marc Gregoire on an extension that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta brings to Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) to allow animations. ...