POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Athlon and Pentium 4: Re: Athlon and Pentium 4

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Athlon and Pentium 4 : Re: Athlon and Pentium 4		Server Time 8 Aug 2024 08:15:36 EDT (-0400)

From: Dan Johnson
Date: 22 Jan 2001 05:23:05
Message: <3A6C0B67.10F7F072@hotmail.com>

> "[ShockWave]" wrote:
> >
> > It has been a LONG time since the last release, when does a new realease
> > come? Are there any Beta version?
> >
> > A new POV-Ray that supports the new things in AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium
> > 4!
>
> I'd like to remain that POV-Ray is meant to be PORTABLE.
> If you want to use CPU specific instructions, it should be
> done by the COMPILER/OPTIMIZER for that CPU, not the source code.

It sounds like intel is going to do their own compile, optimized for the pentium
4.  Well for linux anyway.  A friend called me from intel the other day, and was
telling me about how incredible the processor was on software optimized for it.
Maybe AMD will take notice.

Dan Johnson

Post a reply to this message