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7 Aug 2024 15:13:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PIII/Athlon and P4 optimized Binaries  
From: Ib Rasmussen
Date: 31 Aug 2001 04:49:35
Message: <3B8F500B.BF383CC5@ibras.dk>
Tilly wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> there is a new (second), unofficial Version of POVRAY at
> http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ for download. This Version is
> optimized (with support from Intel) for PIII/Athlon and P4. And I'm deeply
> impressed how immense the difference of rendertime between the non-optimized
> and the optimized code is.

The numbers for my 1333 MHz Athlon are:

Off. compile   482 s
1. optimized   391 s
2. optimized   267 s

This is just as good as getting a new 2.4 GHz processor! And a lot
cheaper!

/Ib


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