compiled C code or interpreted client?

[BitButt]

bfgminer or cgminer.... both of these are compiled miners, right?
I'm trying to stay away from a miner that is using an interpreted
language...for efficiency sake. I hate interpreted languages for
things like this.

Or maybe I really want to use the satoshi client?
Is that what I want?
I plan on using multibit for a wallet.

I'll be using a usb block erupter stick.
I'm perfectly at home with ./configure...make...make install.
I'll be mining on a mac under Mavericks and I have the OSX
developer tools installed.

So which client do I want? I'm just confused as to which
mining clients are compiled C code and which are interpreted.

[BitButt]

Maybe I've asked a dumb question because I misunderstand and all
btc clients are compiled C code and not just interpreted scripts?

So admins....just delete this thread if I'm being the accidental idiot
cuz I missed an understanding.

[uberFoo]

I've got Mavericks as well, but I chose to use a Raspberry Pi to mine.  It's dead simple, and uses very little power.  I've used cgminer for a long time, and only recently switched to bfgminer.  I prefer the latter now because it is more informative.  I have a BFL Jalapeño and a Little Single.  With bfgminer you can see statistics on each chip, whereas cgminer did not go into that much detail.  Or at least there wasn't something obvious I could do to get the information.  At least not without resorting to using the API.

Good luck, it's sorta fun.

[BitButt]

Kool..I've got 2 spare raspi 2nd generation sitting around.
I think I'll get them into the act. So those erupter sticks
work on a raspi without lots of hoops and gyrations?

What about horsepower. A raspi gets really slow when you
start doing things like webmin, VNC and whateverelse.
Makes me think it might not be able to really mine anything
with so little horsepower. Of course, I'd keep it at the commandline
and not waste cpu cycles on a gui. I could ssh in and check
on it's progress, right?

[uberFoo]

I would double check that the block errupters I have never used them, but I think I have seen that other have done so.  I'm guessing you would need a USB hub to power them, since it's likely that they draw more current that the Pi can supply.  But I'm just guessing.

As far as horsepower, you really don't need to worry about it.  The mining software simply transfers data between the mining hardware and the pool.  I'm assuming you are going to use a pool.  The only other option with any hope of mining coin would be to run p2pool, and I don't know that it would work on the Pi.  Especially since you need to have the entire block chain for both p2pool and BTC, or whichever crypto you are mining.

I ssh into mine no problem.  It's got a curses interface that displays everything you might want to look at.

Good luck!

[BitButt]

Sounds worth a try. One pi using a pool and a solo pi miner.

You're right about the powered usb hub.
My pi that is doing dns and dhcp service for my homenet
needed external power.

My mavericks machine will be mining solo.
Only me and the NSA is going to know how
much coin I get/have. I'm not concerned about
how little or how long it takes when mining solo
cuz I'm in it for the adventure and fun and if I can
rake in a buck or 2 then all the better.