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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> There was somewhere out there a Cray-2 (I think) you could log into via
> telnet and run apps. It had POV-Ray on it already, an older version (2.x
> or maybe 3.0) I ran a basic scene from the samples and was surprised at
> how long it actually took.
The speed of Crays don't come from CPU speed, but from havint a *lot*
of them (as well as fast memory buses, etc).
POV-Ray versions previous to 3.7 do not benefit from a Cray at all.
You get better speed by buying an old PC for $50.
Now, POV-Ray 3.7 is a completely different story.
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- Warp
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