POV-Ray 3.1 for Linux should run faster on a P-100 than the Windows
version, but it actually runs slower on my dual-booting PII-333.  The
POV-Ray binary for Windows is compiled with Pentium II optimizations
that help on a Pentium II but may actually run slower on a Pentium, as I
understand it.  I can't confirm this, since I don't have VC++, and the
only Pentium machine I have is a dedicated Linux box.  I also have no
idea how well or poorly the binaries run on non-Intel CPU's.

I'm looking into different compilers in hopes of regaining the across
the board performance advantage of Linux.  I don't expect anyone would
complain of POV-Ray got faster. ;-)  If we end up distributing binaries
that don't work well on some CPU's, Linux (and other Unix) users can
recompile it for their CPU's more readily than most users.

Spider wrote:
> 
> Not with stats, but yes.
> 
> It's faster, but even more important, you have more RAM over for pov in linux
> than in a "trimmed" windows .
> 
> Tom Melly wrote:
> >
> > I'm thinking of turning over a spare drive to Linux to run Pov on (I presume
> > this is already a "you know you've been poving too long when....").
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that unix pov is faster than win pov on the same
> > hardware? (Pentium 100).

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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