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  Re: Bug (or feature to design around when animating).  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 8 Feb 2007 21:33:56
Message: <45cbdd94@news.povray.org>
David E. LeMasters wrote:
>  I tested both 3.6 and the latest 3.7 beta.
> All times are in seconds.
> To make it as simple as possible I only ran two frames, 10 and 11.
> 
>                       Linux-Pentium            Windows-AMD
> Command               3.6       3.7           3.6       3.7
> 
> +kff20 +sf10 +ef10    <1        <1            0.39      0.69
> +kff20 +sf11 +ef11    <1        <1            0.30      0.61
> +kff20 +sf10 +ef11    48        1.19         25.63      1.20
> 
> On the 2 frame animation the first frame was less than 1 sec on both
> machines.
> I don't have any idea what caused the slowdown, but it seems to be
> resolved in 3.7


Wow that is most helpful. Hey, pov already fixed it! No ghost!

But for the short term I think I have to do the math for this one project,
as to whether the slowdown for other frames makes up for the speedup in the
speed bump between scenes.


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