Optimization settings for Visual C++ 2008

These are the optimization settings I use on Visual C++ 2008. These settings are set to the release builds, on the project settings window, and they complement the default release settings.

• C/C++
  • General
    • Debug Information Format: Disabled
  • Code Generation
    • Enable String Pooling: Yes
    • Enable C++ Exceptions: No
    • Runtime Library: Multi-threaded (/MT)
    • Enable Enhanced Instruction Set: Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (/arch:SSE2)
• Linker
  • Debugging
    • Generate Debug Info: No

On debug builds I don’t change the settings much: I just disable the C++ exceptions, and enable the SSE2 and the string pooling.