stbenge wrote:
> scott wrote:
>> 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?

Okay, I just tested it with 3.7-SSE2, and the render time was 3m 06s.

The messages:

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Peak memory used:           9231564 bytes

Render Time:
   Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1.203 seconds)
               using 1 thread(s) with 1.203 CPU-seconds total
   Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
   Trace Time:       0 hours  3 minutes  3 seconds (183.171 seconds)
               using 4 thread(s) with 729.858 CPU-seconds total
POV-Ray finished
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CPU time used: kernel 0.33 seconds, user 732.47 seconds, total 732.80 
seconds.
Elapsed time 186.05 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 3.94.
Render averaged 1409.02 PPS (357.73 PPS CPU time) over 262144 pixels.
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