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Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ij net> wrote:
> Jim Kress wrote:
>>
>> Just got a new computer with Windows ME and was trying the POV benchmark
>> (skyvase.pov). I ran it two ways using the Standard download of v3.1g with
>> the following results:
>>
>> 1) Windows ME command line 34 sec
>> 2) POV GUI 43 sec
>>
>> Quite a large difference!
> The usual answer is the difference is the overhead of running a windows
> OS. About 25% and a bit high but that may be the new ME. It runs so many
> things as cycle consuming processes that you have to expect this sort of
> thing.
> Object oriented. The entire GUI screen is an object. That little PPS
> number in the bottom right is a daughter process. The entire screen is
> updated for that little change. I didn't make it that way, Gates did.
Was the first run in a dos window or in Dos (ie, restart computer in Dos
only mode)? Also, was the image displaying? I've found that image display
takes up a large chunk of time for no reason that I can see, so I've taken
to turning it off and only doing spot checks.
Geoff
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