Skip Talbot <sta### [at] uiucedu> wrote:
> What kind of performance changes/gains can we expect from the 64-bit
> release?  Anyone running benchmarks yet?

  The AMD64 processor has additional features (eg. additional registers)
only available in 64-bit mode which the compiler can use to generate
faster code than when compiling to 32 bits. Thus it is expected that
the 64-bit version will run faster in an AMD64 than the 32-bit version
(how much faster depends on the compiler used).
  If you have an AMD64, it just doesn't make sense to use the 32-bit
version of POV-Ray because the 64-bit version should be faster.

  (And by the way, the 64-bit version being faster does not mean that
64-bitness in itself brings magically some speed benefit. The speedup
is not related to the 64-bitness of the processor, but to the fact that
in 64-bit mode it has additional features not available in 32-bit mode.)

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#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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