Warp wrote:

> Alessandro Coppo <a.c### [at] iolit> wrote:
>> P.S.: I am currently trying out Art Of Illusion (AoI)
>> http://www.artofillusion.org/. If it is as good as it looks it is likely
>> that I will say goodbye to POVRay and switch (and contribute to) AoI.
> 
>   It's really funny that Java hype is so strong that people don't even
> care that the program is 10 times slower than one written in C++.
>   In most programs it doesn't matter, but in a high-end raytracer it
> certainly matters quite a lot. Why spend 10 hours rendering a scene
> which could be rendered in 1 hour?
> 

Just have a look at this URL:

http://tilde-hoschek.home.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/index.htm

(do you notice the domain? CERN... these idiots use Java for particle 
physics, poor stupid boys, aren't they?)

-- 
Alessandro Coppo
a.coppo@<REMOVE_ME>iol.it
www.geocities.com/alexcoppo

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