Compiler Options for improving speed in Multithreaded and Clustering Application

[RW-S]

Are there any specific Compiler Options that you could suggest to increase the speed of our Application.

Nature of Application :
- Clustering Application
- Heavily Multithreaded
- Languages used C, C++ (no advanced C++ constructs used like Templates), Perl.

[Dennis Handly]

Are you optimizing?
How are you doing thread synchronizing?
Where are you spending your time?
Have you used caliper to measure your application?

[RW-S]

Are you optimizing?
Yes we are optimizing.

How are you doing thread synchronizing?
R/W Locks.

Where are you spending your time?
We spend most of the time in IPC, this being a clustering application.

Have you used caliper to measure your application?
No we haven't run Caliper as yet. Will run this now.