Different set of bugs (I know of more annoying bugs in clang and libc++ than I do of their GNU counterparts, perhaps only because I know gcc better), different

Different set of bugs (I know of more annoying bugs in clang and libc++ than I do of their GNU counterparts, perhaps only because I know gcc better), different performance in the generated code. Try them both and benchmark, see which you like best. I believe you can get gcc from homebrew, but beware of linking gcc-built code with libstdc++ and not libc++. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18976922/how-to-use-the-gcc-compiler-in-the-mac-terminal-instead-of-clang http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18976922/how-to-use-the-g...