scott wrote:
>  Warp said:
>>  Does the povray standard benchmark really take less than 1 minute to
>> render in the most modern processors? That's quite fast.
>>
>>  In my computer it takes something a half an hour. (Although I think
>> I haven't tested with the latest version of the benchmark, though. I 
>> think
>> there are at least some changes with the media clouds?)
> 
> I tested with the latest beta, and it takes almost exactly 5 minutes on 
> my laptop (dual-core 2 GHz).  Under 1 minute for a newer 4-core 3.2 GHz 
> machine seems in the right ball-park.

Hmm, I have a Pentium 2.66 GHz quad core here, and the standard 
benchmark took 4 minutes, 20 seconds! Why would this be only slightly 
faster that a 2 GHz duo-core machine?

I used version 3.7b23. Here are the messages:

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Peak memory used:           8449408 bytes

Render Time:
   Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1.938 seconds)
               using 1 thread(s) with 1.937 CPU-seconds total
   Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
   Trace Time:       0 hours  4 minutes 16 seconds (256.407 seconds)
               using 4 thread(s) with 1022.327 CPU-seconds total
POV-Ray finished
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CPU time used: kernel 0.27 seconds, user 1025.83 seconds, total 1026.09 
seconds.
Elapsed time 260.08 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 3.95.
Render averaged 1007.94 PPS (255.48 PPS CPU time) over 262144 pixels.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sam

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