Arthur Flint <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote:
> Some people like the low overhead that DOS
> offers...

  As much as I hate saying this, the Windows version works faster than the DOS
version.
  I once thought that as in DOS POV-Ray has the whole machine to itself while
in windows it has to share resources and time with other processes, it would
be much faster in DOS.
  Then one day I decided to test it in practice. To my big surprise POV-Ray
for Windows outperformed POV-Ray for DOS in almost every case. (And this was
with pov3.1, ie. no superoptimized intel compile available...)

  So don't make the mistake of thinking that POV-Ray will be faster in DOS
just because there are less processes. That's not the only affecting thing.

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