"KalleK" <kal### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3f282696@news.povray.org...
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> I once rendered skyvase.pov on a 386DX40 (without FPU) which took 29
hours

Hmm.. can't find anything in my '94-'95 archives but I'm sure it would
have been around 6 hours on the 386SX-20. There was a software
floating point option in pov then. Haveland.com has an entry 5.5 hrs
for a 386SX-16.

> Now, you can approximate your time rendering skyvase - which will
take some
> 5 seconds on your P4 2,8GHz...

Just checked on my WinXP box ...

Time For Trace:    0 hours  0 minutes   8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  0 minutes   8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
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CPU time used: kernel 0.02 seconds, user 6.98 seconds, total 7.00
seconds
Render averaged 43885.71 PPS over 307200 pixels

Alf

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