POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: POVRAY 64 Bit for XP 64bit and AMD 64bit processor: Re: POVRAY 64 Bit for XP 64bit and AMD 64bit processor

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : POVRAY 64 Bit for XP 64bit and AMD 64bit processor : Re: POVRAY 64 Bit for XP 64bit and AMD 64bit processor		Server Time 17 May 2024 06:47:48 EDT (-0400)

From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 6 Nov 2007 11:57:28
Message: <47309cf8@news.povray.org>


> Can anyone give me some insight into the advantages of using the version of
> POVRAY specifically meant for the 64 bit WinXP and and AMD 64 bit processor.
> 
> Hopefully runtime would be an advantage? Does anybody have any ballpark about
> how much faster? 50% faster 3300% faster?
> 
> Any other advantages?
> 
> 
Well, I know 64-bit can give you a 300% improvement in big integer 
calculations, but POV-Ray is mostly floating point; I don't know how 
much better it gets there.

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