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XL C compilers offer advanced compilation and optimization technologies designed for AIX and Power Systems

XL C for AIX is designed to optimize your infrastructure for Power Systems. From enhancements to support the latest standards, highly-tuned math libraries to industry leading optimization technology, XL C for AIX will allow you to get the most out of your hardware investment.
Designed for Power Systems: Designed to leverage hardware advancements in Power Systems, including the latest POWER7 technology.
Application Performance: Industry leaders in optimization technology that maximizes the application performance executing on Power Systems
Improve Developer Productivity: With access to highly-tuned libraries, optimization utilities and development utilities, developers can focus on solving business logic.
Development and Collaboration Tools: Integration with the latest IBM Rational Developer for Power, integrated development environment (IDE) and IBM Rational Team Concert for Power collaboration tools
Application portability: Conforms to the latest ISO C 1999 standards that enables ease of application migration to Power Systems.
What’s New with XL C for AIX V11.1 including enhancements to leverage the latest POWER7 hardware.
- Operating systems supported: AIX
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IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for Power Systems help you evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies.
C and C++ compilers, available for many IBM platforms, share a common code base that simplifies porting applications between platforms.
Rational Developer for Power provides a complete development environment with integrated edit, compile, and debug capabilities.
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Libraries of tuned mathematical functions offer improved performance over the standard mathematical library routines
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