POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Slow photons in RC5 : Re: Slow photons in RC5 Server Time
6 Aug 2024 04:22:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Slow photons in RC5  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 26 May 2002 02:48:34
Message: <3cf08542@news.povray.org>
"Dave Dunn" <poi### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3CE### [at] aolcom...

>
> I am a bit taken aback by the silence on this issue. Anyone can try this
for
> themselves. Run the file "optics.pov" from the scenes/advanced folder
under 3.5
> RC5 and watch your system slow to a crawl. Now try it under MegaPOV 0.7.
The
> file screams by in a small fraction of the time. The output quality will
show a
> bit brighter media in RC5, but that is the only difference, other than the
> exponential time increase.
>

Testing....

Confirmed (2 minor changes to scene file for MP7).

win95 p2 233 (iirc)
optics.pov under 3.5 RC5 MSVC
30m30s
optics.pov under MP7
5m46s


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