Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: I wondered how much of that time 
: was spent waiting for disk I/O, so I also rendered with -f instead of +ft,
: but it was still about sixteen seconds.

  I think that even windows caches most disk writes and then flushes the
caches using DMA (ie. no CPU intervention needed) so that it doesn't affect
too much the performance of programs. Of course this AFAIK.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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