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> space_cadet wrote:
> 	This is both right and wrong: some optimizations are processor
> specific and those are not used in distributed binaries. But there
> are a lot of generic optimizations that can be applied no matter
> what your target is (i.e they are valid for power pc as well as x86
> or any other) and other optimizations that are valid for all CPUs in
> any family (eg for all x8 CPUs).
	This should of course read "all x86 CPUs"...

> Those optimizations are usually
> active in all distributed binaries. AFAIK the official PC povray
> binaries are compiled with all optimizations for the i686 (PentiumII
> and above) so you may gain a little if you recompile with  the
> optimizations specific to your precise CPU, but probably not much...
> 
		Jerome
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