I presume you are talking about the TI C6000 compiler.
[quote user="Kent Dekome"]there is a problem with exception handling in that it is not thread-safe (back in 2012)[/quote]
This is still the case. The current release versions 7.4.x do not supply exception handling that is thread-safe.
[quote user="Kent Dekome"]the OMAP c++ compiler may not be able to optimize properly given all that wacky template stuff.[/quote]
C++ code with templates tends to require lots of function inlining to be efficient. The efficiency difference due to this inlining can be significant. Think 10x, or more. But as long as you build with --opt_level=0 or higher, the compiler will perform the needed function inlining.
Thanks and regards,
-George