POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Intel plans to use Pov : Re: Intel plans to use Pov Server Time
8 Aug 2024 10:25:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Intel plans to use Pov  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 17 Jan 2001 15:45:38
Message: <3A660472.C534848@gmx.de>
Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> That's (largely) because the code is not optimized for P4; to my knowledge there
> is as yet no compiler available with P4-specific optimizations. I guess that's
> the point they're pushing with this new compiler demonstration. It'll be
> interesting to see the difference it makes.
> 

I doubt that optimisation matters that much if it's mainly about pure FPU
computation speed.  I would estimate not more than about 5-10 percent. 
Anyway I agree that it would be interesting to see the result.

Christoph

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