[Rcpp-devel] what is the best c++ compiler for rcpp?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 16 July 2012 at 06:38, Walter Mascarenhas wrote:
| Hi,
| 
|    If you could pick any compiler you wanted,
| which one would you choose to use with rcpp?

Usually it goes the other way: Pick whichever compiler is used on your system
to build R, and use its C++ compiler.  

So this usually comes down to g++, and all recently released version tend to
work.  (That said, RcppArmadillo just needed a workaround for g++ 4.7.0/4.7.1.)

Dirk

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