"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote in 
message news:49ad190e@news.povray.org...
> Could some folks please try:
>
>  http://www.povray.org/temp/pvengine32-sse2.zip
>
> and check for (a) crackle problems, and (b) crackle speed compared with
> past versions?

Thanks for putting this one out to test.

It *looks* fixed, for me anyhow in the few ways I tried it.

Render speed is another matter. Without AA the two seem similar enough until 
AA is applied and then I get a multiple longer render time. Like a 4X or 5X 
change when just using crackle pigment and normal without any other 
parameters (no solid, metric, offset), although different types of crackle 
are also similar in this difference in render times if using AA versus 
without.

Hopefully this doesn't mean antialiased crackle-containing renders will 
always be slow considering how the broken version could be so fast. Wish I 
had a clue why so I could help figure it out. Got to be something 
interesting going on with it.
; )
Bob H.

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