Straight from the news item on povray.co.uk

'I was amazed! Those povray guys write really portable code. Unfortunately,
its not very fast :(. The Dreamcast uses an SH4 processor. The NetBSD dc
port is using an SH3 compiler. The SH4 is backwards compatible w/ the SH3,
so it works, but I would imagine the SH4 can do a lot more than the SH3. I
am pretty sure the SuperH SH4 processor in the DC is supposed to have some
fancy floating point stuff. Once we get a compiler for the SH4 we'll
probably get better results. Plus, gcc probably optimises code much better
for x86s, PowerPCs, etc, than the SH3.'

While we are awaiting the actual benchmark figures, I think it will be safe
to assume that its around the 3 hours mark for the standard skyvase.pov at
640x480.


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