Add Annotations into Your Source Code

You can add Intel® Advisor annotations in your source code by:

Copying annotations with the annotation assistant in the Survey Report window, Survey Source window, or the No Data message. Use the annotation assistant to copy the main annotations for parallel sites, tasks, and locks. For example, the annotation assistant appears in the lower part of the Survey Report window in the Assistance tab.
On Windows* OS only: When using the Visual Studio* code editor, you can use the Annotation Wizard to select an annotation type and add the annotations and their arguments into your code. You can use the Annotation Wizard to add parallel site, task, lock, pause/resume data collection, and special-purpose annotations.

Note

In most cases, you do not need source annotations when using Intel® Advisor, except for the Suitability analysis of the Threading perspective. When analyzing your application with other perspectives, such as Vectorization and Code Insights or Offload Modeling, you can analyze all parts of your code automatically or use Intel Advisormark-up capabilities, which do not require you to recompile your application.

Note

If your sources include huge source files that contain annotations, be aware that only the first 8 MB of each file will be parsed for annotations. If not all of your annotations are being parsed in such huge source files, consider breaking each huge source file into several source files.