Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018, including Intel® C++ Compiler 18.0, is now available from the Intel Registration Center. Release notes can be found https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-compiler-180-release-notes.
Some of the new supported features are below:
- New /Qopt-zmm-usage
- New option /Qimf-use-svml to enforce SVML
- Compile time dispatching for SVML calls
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017* support added
- Support of hardware based PGO
- Support for counted range based for loops as parallel loops
- Features from OpenMP* TR4 Version 5.0 Preview 1
- Support for more new features in OpenMP* 4.0 or later
- Some C++17 features supported
- Adding support for atomic keyowrd in C11 features
- Microsoft* Visual Studio 2012* is no longer supported
- Support for the Intel® Xeon Phi™ x100 product family coprocessor (formerly code name Knights Corner) is removed in this release
- Intel® Cilk™ Plus deprecated in 18.0
- Offline documentation removed from the Installed image
With the recent release of Visual Studio 2017 15.3.x, please see this article for some known issues.
Jennifer
Intel Compiler Support
