POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Intel plans to use Pov : Re: Intel plans to use Pov Server Time
8 Aug 2024 16:22:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Intel plans to use Pov  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 18 Jan 2001 04:09:16
Message: <3A66B291.46FB662B@inapg.inra.fr>
Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 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.
>

The Intel person I talked to says that their latest compiler, when running on a
Pentium 4 1.5GHz, gives about 2x performance over GCC. But don't ask me what it means
since my knowledge of processors and compilers is close to nil.

G.


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