In article <40b229f2@news.povray.org> , gRRosminet <pov### [at] les-charlesnet>
wrote:

> I have downloaded the official binary for linux and ran the benchmark.
>
> Official : 45 minutes 08 seconds ( 2708 seconds )
> gcc pentium4 optimized : 36 minutes 43 seconds ( 2203 seconds )
> ICC pentium4 optimized : 33 minutes 01 seconds ( 1981 seconds )

And the gcc and Intel C++ compiler versions happen to be?

I suppose they were more recent versions of the compiler used for the
official version two years ago?  If so, your statement about optimisations
happens to have no validity at all...

    Thorsten

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