In article <4096c535$1@news.povray.org> , David Burnett 
<var### [at] ntlworldcom>  wrote:

> GCC 3.3.3 compiled 3.5c
>
> Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes  16.0 seconds (16 seconds)
> Time For Photon:   0 hours  2 minutes  26.0 seconds (146 seconds)
> Time For Trace:    1 hours 24 minutes  53.0 seconds (5092 seconds)
>      Total Time:    1 hours 27 minutes  34.0 seconds (5254 seconds)
>
>
> MacMegaPov 1.0 downloaded from MacMegaPov Website, ini file generated
> from GCC run with GI option modified for path differences.
>
> Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
> Time For Photon:   0 hours  2 minutes  30.0 seconds (150 seconds)
> Time For Trace:    1 hours 27 minutes  25.0 seconds (5243 seconds)
>      Total Time:    1 hours 30 minutes   1.0 seconds (5401 seconds)

Well, you are aware that you are comparing apples and organges here, aren't
you?  You compare a single-threaded unofficial patched GUI version with a
single-threaded unofficial compile of an unaltered official command-line
version.  And as indicated by your second post, you also compare versions
optimised for different processors on the same processor.  Plus, MacMegaPov
was compiled with an old version of CodeWarrior while you are using the
almost latest version of gcc.  Not to mention that one using CFM and the
other Mach-O executable format.

Even ignoring the GUI vs command-line and CFM vs Mach-O difference,
comparing the official 3.6 beta 4 compiled with the latest CodeWarrior and
gcc, and using the official benchmark configuration (except for the image
size, which was only 128*128), I still get a 7% edge over gcc - it may not
seem much, but is 1.5 hours per day!

CW

Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  5 seconds (5 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  1 minutes 34 seconds (94 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 15 minutes 22 seconds (922 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 17 minutes  1 seconds (1021 seconds)

gcc

Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  4 seconds (4 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  1 minutes 49 seconds (109 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 16 minutes 19 seconds (979 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 18 minutes 12 seconds (1092 seconds)


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