Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Like they say, that *little* grows when doing long renders.
> Btw, I've seen an average 8% difference on this 233MMX 32Meg SDRAM (now
> 64) but haven't done any DOS renders since).
> POVpro, the dos "speed-optimized" version of POV-Ray 3, was usually 20
> to 40 percent faster, depending on the scene.

This is only true with "usual" scenes. POVPro is great but uses a lower
precision calculation (to increase speed), but this introduces noise in
the results and makes it more difficult to have AA converge correctly.
With strong AA, it can be far slower than the official version.

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