Jamie Davison <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote:
: These values may be slightly skewed singe I only ran each trace once, 
: rather than running multiple times each time on a fresh reboot and 
: averaging results

  The benchmarks of type "make a fresh boot, turn everything else off, give
povray the highest possible priority, don't do ANYTHING else while it's
rendering" are good for testing raw rendering speed of the processor.
  However, they are usually of no much use for the average user. Well,
they are useful when deciding which CPU to buy, but they don't give you
a too realistic idea of how fast povray is in practice with that CPU. Usually
people do other things while povray is rendering, make tens of even hundreds
of renders without a clean boot in between and so on.

-- 
#local D=array[6]{11117333955,7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330}
#local I=0;#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I],13),8)-3,10>#end
#while(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().1
pigment{rgb M()}}#local I=(D[I]>99?I:I+1);#end              /*- Warp -*/

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