Is it possible (or are plans in the works) to support passing hints to the optimizer, in a manner similar to gcc's "__builtin_expect()" function?
Also, on a somewhat related note, is there a reliable manner in which to get the compiler to print out optimization feedback during the compilation stage? When I upgraded to 2011 a few years ago, I noticed it would sometimes print out this information during the compile, but there didn't appear to be (or I couldn't find) a direct compiler flag to get this information out. The reason for this is we would like to get more detail on what exactly the compiler is modifying/unrolling/reordering, such that we can alter the code where appropriate so we can pick up some of these gains in lower levels of optimization, or perhaps find good candidates for OpenMP directives.
Thanks