SPEC CPU2006 Flags Disclosure for the Intel Compilers (v10.1) on Mac OSX

Last updated: 8-Apr-2008

This flags disclosure file describes the compiler flags associated with the following Intel compilers:

Sections

Selecting one of the following will take you directly to that section:


Optimization Flags


Portability Flags


Compiler Flags


Other Flags


System and Other Tuning Information

Platform settings

The system under test is deemed reasonably quiet by turning off the following from the System Preferences panel:

OMP_NUM_THREADS

Sets the maximum number of threads to use for OpenMP* parallel regions if no other value is specified in the application. This environment variable applies to both -openmp and -parallel (Linux and Mac OS X).
Example syntax on a Mac OS X system with 8 cores:
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=8