POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Re: choosing CPU : Re: choosing CPU Server Time
14 Aug 2024 03:21:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: choosing CPU  
From: Redaelli Paolo
Date: 6 Apr 1970 11:18:24
Message: <1414.400T1221T10381757@inc.it>
>Redaelli Paolo wrote in message <110### [at] incit>...
>>... you're quite wrong. The inner core on Photoshop is written in C or C++,
>therefore the Mac and Win version are as fast as they can be being native
>code (PPC for Mac, x86 for Win).
>>It is a fact that last Intel chips are slower than PPC.
>As a sometime cross-platform programmer, I can tell you plainly that there
>is a great deal you can do to slow down a program outside of the "inner
>core", particularly when porting to a different OS.
The time test was done only on "inner-core-test", i.e.: load a huge image (fitting in
the memory), aplly a very-heavy transformation and timing the operation alone, not
Os's specific things like screen-redraw and the like.


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