Preparing Applications for Intel Core Microarchitecture

Overview

Intel Core microarchitecture combines the best of the desktop Intel NetBurst microarchitecture and mobile Intel Pentium M architecture. As Intel will be using a single architecture for both the desktop and mobile platforms, the challenge is how to prepare applications so that they can run well on Intel Core microarchitecture. What can be done with existing and new desktop and mobile applications to make them ready when the new Intel processors hit the market? This paper is not intended to show users everything they can do to improve the performance of existing applications on the Intel Core microarchitecture. It only suggests some techniques to either improve or maintain the performance of an existing application when running on systems with these new Intel processors.