Dang it.  Doesn't mean much unless I say the renders were with a Pentium III CPU
and not a K6-2.  Sorry.  But then I haven't a clue as to what is good or bad
about not using a Pentium II and the optimizations there are for it thus what a
PIII might be doing differently and all that.

Bob

"Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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| In supposing there might be some relevance to this at all I tried comparing
| MegaPov 0.4 (msvc) with WinPOV-Ray (watcom) using the chess2.pov scene file
too
| and got just a 15 second difference, official POV being the faster of the two.
| Although not perfect testing conditions I think it was probably a fair enough
| check.  Render times 20:36 and 20:21.
|
| Bob
|
| "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
| news:38C16B5C.4B8BD1B0@pacbell.net...
| |
| |
| | Lars Luthman wrote:
| | >
| | > Ken skrev i meddelandet <38C127E9.8AF04006@pacbell.net>...
| | > >
| | > > If you do decide to try it I would love to hear back from you whether
you
| | > >notice any appreciable difference on the K6 processor.
| | > >
| | >
| | > Downloaded and tried it - rendered "chess2.pov" at 640x480 with
| | > anti-aliasing:
| | >
| | >     Watcom:        27 min 35 sec
| | >     MSVC6++:    24 min 34 sec
| | >
| | > Not a huge difference, but still a difference.
| |
| |
| | I would consider that an appreciable difference where raytracing is
concerned.
| |
| | Thanks for the feedback.
| |
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| | Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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