> Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
> 
>>Your results agree pretty well with what I got myself for
>>the Intel Xeon @ 3.06 GHz:
>>
>>http://pov4grasp.free.fr/articles/fastpov1/xeon_3.06.png
>>
>>GCC 3.4.x gives at best 00:32:30, and ICC 8.1 about 00:28:10 in
>>my tests -- so you may have a look at which compiler flags I used if you
>>want to gain another two minutes  :-)
>>
>>- NC
> 
> 
> I can't seem to close that 2 minutes gap :-), the same options
> you used make no appreciable difference, my best time is 00:30:03.
> I guess it's down to kernel build and/or libraries.
> 
> Thanks for your comments and especially for that report, very
> informative.
> 

As you are speaking about librairies, something noticable is that 
staticaly linked libraries offers better performances ... perhaps this 
can explain your 2 minutes ?

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