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  Re: POV-Ray for Windows 64-bit edition now available as a release candidate  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 13 Jul 2004 11:44:23
Message: <40f40357@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 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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