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Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO
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)...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
PGO is a runtime compiler optimization which leverages profile data collected from running important and performance centric user scenarios to build an optimized version of the application. PGO...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3
Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re...
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Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012
If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts. These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) drives next generation SAP NetWeaver...
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last blog I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is all about with...
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NuGet for C++
The wait is over. NuGet support for C++ projects is here.Quick Links• NuGet 2.5 Download page: https://nuget.codeplex.com/releases/view/96733• CoApp’s Powershell Tools Installer to create C++ NuGet...
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Fix: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 breaks Windows XP targeting with ATL and/or...
Recently, some of our customers reported a bug in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 that breaks Windows XP targeting with C++ in some scenarios. Specifically, applications using ATL and/or statically linking...
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NuGet for C++ and the Northwest Hackathon
Howdy!My name is Garrett Serack, I'm not actually part of the Visual C++ team--I actually work as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center, which is part of...
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Speed up Windows PHP Performance using Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last two blogs I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is all about...
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Image Processing with C++ AMP and the .NET Framework
Image processing is a computational task that lends itself very well to GPU compute scenarios. In many cases the most commonly used algorithms are inherently massively parallel, with each pixel in the...
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New Channel 9 video on the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit now online
If you’re interested in DirectX development, head on over to Channel 9, where there’s a new video about the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit. This time, Roberto Sonnino interviews Gokhan Sengun, who’s...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) – Under the Hood
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last few blogs I provided an introduction to what PGO is all about along with case studies which...
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Optimizing C++ Code
Introduction 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...
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C++ REST SDK 1.0.0 is now available
Since our last release, the C++ REST SDK team has been working on improving the overall quality of the SDK to transition out of the beta phase. We are excited to announce that the C++ REST SDK has...
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Optimizing C++ Code : Overview
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...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO)
PGO is a runtime compiler optimization which leverages profile data collected from running important and performance centric user scenarios to build an optimized version of the application. PGO...
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Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 3 of 3
Welcome back to our third and final post on using the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit! If you read our previous posts in this series (here and here), you’ve got an app that has an animated die, and you’re...
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Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012
If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts. These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the...
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Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) drives next generation SAP NetWeaver...
To introduce myself I am Ankit Asthana and I am the program manager for the backend C++ compiler. In my last blog I provided an introduction to what Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is all about with...
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Deep Dive into NuGet Native (Part One)
Howdy!Today I thought I’d start explaining how NuGet supports C/C++ packages under the covers, and look into how one could (theoretically) manually construct a package without using the CoApp...
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