"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <40ca2d06@news.povray.org> , "Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet>
> wrote:
>
> > chalk it up to whatever you want (new compiler?, cleaned code?, ...?)
but
> > the official 3.6 binary shaved 19 minutes off of benchmark.pov using the
> > benchmark.ini settings, compared to the official 3.5 binary with the
same
> > official benchmark.pov/benchmark.ini. i never benchmarked pov before, so
i
> > thought i'd do it before I installed 3.6.
>
> This was mentioned bfeore: You *cannot* compare the 3.5 and the 3.6
> becnhmark results due to anti-aliasing changes in POV-Ray 3.6!
>
>     Thorsten

I can compare the time it used to take for me to render a scene to the time
it takes now to render a scene. i'm not trying to dig too deeply, i'm just
saying I experience a rather noticeable speed gain.

what the hell are benchmarks for if not to compare and old something to a
new something?

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