I'll go with the non-AA as being faster than with AA up until the image
resolution is doubled, in which case I'd say the AA could win the render-time
race when it's half the resolution of the non-AA one.  But then it is very
scene-dependant stuff as the others are saying and +a0.1 is mighty slow if
there's much of any sort of pixel to pixel variances.
If I can guess you're "average" scene is like the shapes.pov file used for
testing POV-Ray after install then non-AA almost always wins :-)
I tried renders of shapes.pov just now at 512x384 -a, and 320x240 +a0.1 and the
non-AA one took only about 91% of the time it took to do the AA one, relatively
close really.

Bob

"Paul Vanukoff" <van### [at] primenetcom> wrote in message
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| I'm wondering, given an "average" scene (whatever that means), what would
| render faster:
|
| 2000*1500 with AA @ 0.1
|
|  or
|
| 3000*2250 with no AA ?
|
| Any thoughts?
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| Paul Vanukoff
| van### [at] primenetcom
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