Thank you for the link!  Using the AMD-optimized version I got the following
(nothing else was changed):

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Smallest Alloc:                 25 bytes   Largest:          1440024
Peak memory used:          6408029 bytes
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Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   2.0 seconds (2 seconds)
Time For Photon:   0 hours  0 minutes  40.0 seconds (40 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours 27 minutes  49.0 seconds (1668 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours 28 minutes  30.0 seconds (1710 seconds)
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CPU time used: kernel 0.27 seconds, user 1701.16 seconds, total 1701.42
seconds
Render averaged 86.67 PPS over 147456 pixel

A difference of almost 5 minutes!  W00t!

Next to defrag, check msconfig, and turn off Norton antivirus (oops!).

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