I work in the Sun Developer Tools division within Oracle, having joined via the acquisition of Sun earlier this year. As it turns out, our team had been working hard on the next release of our Studio compilers and tools product for Solaris and Linux platforms when the acquisition was completed. While many things continue to stay the same, such as our continued focus on the productivity of software developers in creating high-quality, high-performance, applications, some things did indeed change. New brand, new name, new internal processes, and more. However, the team displayed great agility and focus in delivering our first release, under Oracle, right on time.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10, which can be freely downloaded here:
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express/
Sun Studio Express has been renamed Oracle Solaris Studio Express. Supporting both Solaris 10 (SPARC, x86) and Linux distributions (OEL 5, RHEL 5, SuSE 11), Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10 will be made available on OpenSolaris in the near future. Downloads included both the package installer (SVR4, RPM) and non-package tarballs.
Highlights include the following:
- C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest UltraSPARC and SPARC64-based architectures such as UltraSPARC T2 and SPARC64 VII
- C/C++/Fortran compiler optimizations for the latest x86 architectures including Intel® Xeon® 7500 processor series (Nehalem-EX) and 5600 processor series (Westmere-EP)
- Enhanced debugging and code coverage tooling: a new memory debugger (Discover) provides increased performance & accuracy. Other enhancements include improved debugging of optimized code (OCD), improvements to tcov, and a new code coverage tool (Uncover) which prioritizes unexercised functions.
- Improved application profiling and observability: enhancements in the Performance Analyzer include the ability to compare multiple experiment runs, new hierarchical tree view of data functionality, and profiling of shell scripts. A new stand-alone DLight observability tool is also included in the release.
- Updated IDE based on NetBeans 6.8: Oracle Solaris Studio comes with an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the award winning Netbeans IDE, tailored for use with the included compilers and the debugger. This IDE increases developer productivity with a code-aware editor, workflow, and project functionality. The updated IDE provides performance improvements to the code assistance model and new remote development functionality.