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: 24 Jul 2008 06:49:39 GMT
  Re: POVRAY 64 Bit for XP 64bit and AMD 64bit processor  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 6 Nov 2007 16:57:28
Woody escribió:
> 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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