> : Personally I find it interesting that the 1.33Ghz Atlhon running Vanilla
> : POV beats the 1.5Ghz P4 running an optimised version.
>
>   It's also funny that the 1.2GHz Athlon (which I have) beats the 1.7GHz
P4
> even though the latter has almost half of MHz's more (not to talk about
> price...).

I found it more impressive that the biggest performance boost came from a
new compile - think there is definitely room for an optimised pov patch
branch :)


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