[daip] Re: AIPS on Apple Mac G4/Mac OS X

[Eric Greisen]

Carole G. Mundell writes:

 > Are you aware of any AIPS port to the Apple Mac G4-based systems running  
 > Mac OS X? Since this OS is based on a BSD unix-like kernel and tools like
 > f2c and gcc are available, a port seems possible in principle. However,
 > I'm aware that things aren't always as easy as they seem!
 > 
 > I'm considering a replacement for my existing Linux laptop and the
 > Apple powerbook G4 looks like an interesting possibility.
 > 
 > Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
 > 

It ought to be easy enough, but I am unaware of any attempt to do it.
I am excessively busy until after September and, if NRAO owns such a
machine, it has not been made available to me.

We found that f2c produced pretty slow code (C does not optimize well
while Fortran does) and the latest gcc versions (3.0.1-3.0.4) are not
acceptable either although 2.95.3 is very good.  (See our web home
page). 

Eric Greisen