Intel upgrades software tools for Leopard
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 28, 2007 at 1:38pm
Intel has announced an upgrade of its software tools suite for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). The 10.1 version of the Intel C++ Compiler and Intel Fortran Compiler, as well as the Intel Threading Building Blocks, Intel Math Kernel Libraries and Intel Performance Primitives, have been optimized for Apple’s Leopard and Xcode 3.0 development environment launched last month.
The combination of Intel’s compilers, Leopard and Xcode 3.0 provides support for Mac developers to take full advantage of Intel multicore processors, according to Intel. Intel’s compilers contain auto-parallelizing capabilities, libraries and Threading Building Blocks for Mac OS X, and Leopard is fully optimized for multicore environments with new developer APIs (application programming interfaces) and tools for developing multithreaded applications.
Since the introduction of the Intel processor-based Macs in 2006, Intel has offered the Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, Intel Math Kernel Library and Intel Integrated Performance Primitives for Mac OS X.
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