I just recently bought a copy of Windows XP Pro.  I installed Povray and ran
the benchmark.  I was suprised to find that it was now taking half again as
long to run as it does under win98 and my own "build from source" on Linux
(expected, but not like this).  Are there any changes and/or optimizations
to bios, processes, etc. that need to be made to bring these numbers up?

athlon t-bird 1.1 gHz
512 megs ram
via chipset
tnt2 vidcard

Linux/w98 benchmark = ~40 mins.
XP Pro benchmark = ~1 hr. 4 mins.

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