I've made a little comparsion on my own PC, on a fireworks scene.
Hardware :
P166mmx overclocked to 200Mhz
32Mb EDO
1 Mb Cache.

win95 : 
  Litestep as shell, no unnecessary programs run.
  no editor, no menubar, no animation.

Test scene can be posted in .text.scene-files on demand.
Same .pov file and .ini file in both tests.

Scene info :
two infinite spheres
sky_sphere
a HF, 512*334*16
4 lights of diff. colour
a fog.
3207 objects total
Resolution 640 x 480
Antialiasing Off
Radiosity Off


Dos-Stats
Memory : 6 194 964
Parse  : 20.0 seconds
Trace  : 8 minutes   3.0 seconds 
Time   : 8 minutes  23.0 seconds

Win-Stats
Memory : 6 191 008
Parse  : 27 seconds
Trace  : 8 minutes   56.0 seconds
Time   : 9 minutes   23.0 seconds

As you can see there is not much difference between the two.

//Spider

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