CCL:Macintosh questions (fwd)

[Chris Black]

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 07:20, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:23:01 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joe M Leonard <jle at world.std.com>
> To: chemistry at ccl.net
> Subject: CCL:Macintosh questions
> 
> I would welcome any guidance on the following questions (and
> assume somebody reading this has played with new Macintoshes):
> 
> 1) What is the large-scale/floating point performance between the newest
> Macs and Intel machines?  Is there any particular compilers and/or switches
> needed to realize max performance?

I am not sure on this but as I understand it the gcc that Apple ships
with their free developer tools has had some work done to improve
optimizations on PPC CPUs.
 
> 2) How does OSX compare to Linux as a development environment?  Can one
> do C and Fortran coding (or more-modern languages) on these machines?
> Are there particular problem areas?

I haven't done Fortran, but C works fine using make and gcc from the
developers tool cd. As for problem areas I will mention that the way
they handle dynamic linking and building shared libraries is different
from the way I was used to on Linux, but it does work (after some
makefile changes).

> 3) Is there any problem giving presentations from a Mac rather than
> a PC (both laptops)?  Or, are the suitable video-out ports supported
> on each?

One thing to keep in mind is that the new TiBooks have a DVI out rather
than a VGA out, meaning you will need an adapter to use many projectors.

Chris