>>> 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.

Yeh, I used the SSE2 version, but I would have expected 4x 2.66 GHz to be 
more than twice the speed of 2x 2.00 GHz...

It's an Intel Core2Duo T7200 btw.

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