64-bit development, ANSI C++ support, and faster performance
make production debut Sun WorkShopTM software 5.0 is ready for prime time. After
months of early access releases and roughly three and half months of developer releases,
during which over 8,000 customers downloaded the product suite, Sun WorkShop product
has proven itself on the test bench and in the real world.
The Sun WorkShop software family includes Sun Visual WorkShopTM C++ 5.0 and Sun
Performance WorkShopTM Fortran 5.0 software. This latest version of Sun WorkShop
product delivers 64-bit application development for the Solaris Operating EnvironmentTM
(versions 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7), support for the new ANSI/ISO C++ industry standard,
and increased performance. Sun WorkShop 5.0 tool may not help you leap tall buildings
in a single bound, but it does provide C/C++ and Fortran developers a competitive
advantage for building enterprise-class applications.
Like its predecessor, Sun WorkShop 5.0 software provides all the tools developers
and their teams use on a daily basis to create single and multithreaded applications
rapidly: GUI builders, browsers, debuggers, performance analyzers, compilers, and
code management tools. Productivity and performance improvements in the new package
come from enhancing all the pieces to produce 64-bit or 32-bit applications, including
dramatic improvements to the Fortran 90 compiler, adding new routines and increased
optimizations in the Sun Performance LibraryTM, and much more. ANSI C++ support
makes it easier and faster to port code to Solaris from other environments, and
new features like automatic dynamic memory management, provided by the new garbage
collector for C and C++, should be a big help to those writing applications for
24-by-7 deployment.
An Easy Speed Boost
Upgrading to Sun WorkShop 5.0 software should
pay an automatic speed dividend just by recompiling applications. User experience
and SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) benchmarks support this new
conventional wisdom.
"Whenever Sun comes out with a new compiler we've learned that they generally
do a great job of producing tighter code. We have come to expect an automatic eight
to ten percent performance bump just by upgrading to the new compiler. What we've
seen thus far looks like it is in that range," says Ganesan Gopal, who manages
the performance engineering group for Sybase. Gopal says his engineering team is
now in the process of exploring some of the new features in Sun WorkShop 5.0 software
that should deliver additional performance gains.
SPEC benchmarks confirm these performance improvements. On SPARCTM platforms, Sun
WorkShop software boosted its SPECint performance by seven percent and its SPECfp
number by 18 percent. Using Intel the SPECint improved by 13 percent while the SPECfp
jumped tremendously -- 61 percent faster. Examine the details of the benchmarks
to see what performance improvements you might expect.
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