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From: scottm@tekgen.UUCP (Scott Maxson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Info on C for numerical analysis wanted
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 17:23:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 17:23:19 1986
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Keywords: Macintosh, C Compiler, numerical analysis

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Of the several C compilers available for the Mac, are any
more suitable for scientific applications?  General problems I'm
interested in are solving systems of differential equations, inverting
large matrices, computing particle trajectories, etc.

In rough order, my priorities are:

  1. Complete support for floating point, with (at least) 80 bit reals
	and a math lib with corresponding accuracy
  2. Ability to handle data structures of around 10K reals 
  3. Good (Mac-like) development evironment
  4. Fast execution speed on fp operations
  6. Cost

I've not found a review of C compilers for the Mac in the sea of
Macintosh publications; if anyone can point me to one that would be
great.  I would especially like reviews from C compiler users programming
related (or really any) applications.

I'll summerize for the net.

Thanks.

Scott Maxson
Tektronix DS 50-276
(503)-627-2729
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