Bob Hughes wrote in message <38c17c44@news.povray.org>...
>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.


My comparisons of render times of skyvase.pov on a 400Mhz AMD K6-II
(640x480, no AA):

SkyPov (Custom version based on 3.1g superpatch): 122s
MegaPov 0.3: 96s
SuperPatch 3.1e: 91s
POV-Ray 3.1e (watcom): 81s
UVPov 6.1: 79 s

Mark

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