"Warp" <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote in message news:40f39b77@news.povray.org...
> (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.)
Precisely. I saw a speedup of about 10%, and there'll be more to come as
the compiler I am using is still in beta.
Plus 64-bit mode also allows you to render insane scenes ;-). (I've rendered
one here which used 3.5 gigabytes of RAM).
-- Chris
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