I posted a test render in p.b-t.b. Did not experience the same speedup with 
all scenes. The new beta is slower once I started adjusting global radiosity 
settings.

Mike


"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
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> Just an FYI to the folks who are interested: Christoph's radiosity fixes
> have been integrated and see to work very well. A hearty 'thanks' to him
> for this! I intend to do a release in the next day or two that 
> incorporates
> the new code.
>
> On my system (8 cores), cornell.pov at 1280x1024 AA 0.3 renders in 20
> seconds with a speedup ratio of about 7x. I haven't looked into what might
> be chewing up the rest of the CPU time, other than to note that the cores
> aren't quite 100% pegged in the first five or so seconds of the render. (I
> am guessing it may be related to the early sampling and octree code but
> either way I'm happy enough with it just as it is:)
>
> I haven't tried any animations yet or anything.
>
> -- Chris

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