gcc is fine (e.g. the version that comes with XCode, though it is
quite old). If you need more speed then the Intel compiler (icc) is
well worth considering; it is excellent and quite affordable for
academic use. If you want your code to be portable then you should
build it on both.

I second the other nominations for boost, especially boost's
shared_ptr which takes away most of the headaches of memory
management.

Another worthwhile package is Eigen for matrix math.

-- Russell

On May 11, 12:39 pm, RobS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to get my feet wet in (fall down the black hole towards) C+
> +. I'm using, of course, Mac OS X v10.6.3 and was wondering about
> compilers. I understand there's one in the developers tools that come
> with the Mac but have also heard of the Clang project.
>
> The goal ultimately is to work in Astrophysical computation, if that
> matters.
>
> And I will continue to use our favourite editor, of course.
>
> Rob

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