> It showed a difference between the official Windows and Linux versions 
> of about 10% in rendering the benchmark scene.  Note the test was far 
> from sophisticated, various things (including beta version related 
> issues) could have influenced the result.  Especially note that 
> depending on the processor you might get similar speed differences from 
> different compiler optimization settings on linux (see recent discussion 
> in povray.unix).

Yes, I can confirm that. The official linux binary is on my machine (P4) 
about 10% slower than a self compiled one (just plain ./configure; 
make...).
I guess this is related to P4 optimizations?
I've got no C compiler under windows, so I can't try if it would speed 
up the windows version too, but I've seen  that the offical windows 
binary runs a bit faster than the official linux binary...

-sascha

Post a reply to this message