Advanced PGO Options

The options listed below extend the ability of the basic PGO options and provide more control when using PGO. For information about the critical PGO options, see Basic PGO Options.

Windows*

Linux*

Effect

/Qprof-dir

-prof-dir

Specifies the directory in which dynamic information (.dyn) files are created and stored; otherwise, the .dyn files are placed in the directory where the program is compiled.

For more information, see the following topic:

/Qprof-file

-prof-file

Specifies file name for profiling summary file. If this option is not specified the summary information is stored in the default file: pgopti.dpi.

For more information, see the following topic:

/Qprof-gen-sampling

-prof-gen-sampling

IA-32 Only. Prepares application executables for hardware profiling (sampling) and causes the compiler to generate source code mapping information.

Note

Mac OS*: This option is not supported.

For more information, see the following topic:

/Qssp

-ssp

IA-32 Only. Enables Software-based Speculative Pre-computation (SSP) optimization.

Note

Mac OS: This option is not supported.

For more information, see the following topic:

  • -ssp compiler option