POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Programming langauges : Re: Programming langauges Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:26:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Programming langauges  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Oct 2009 15:15:07
Message: <4ae4a3bb$1@news.povray.org>
SharkD schrieb:
> On 10/25/2009 1:48 PM, clipka wrote:
>> However, it often depends a lot on the compiler and libraries, rather
>> than the language itself.
> 
> Er, yeah! I forgot about POV's 10% performance drop as a result of 
> switching from the Visual Studio compiler.

A similar performance difference can be observed with POV-Ray on AMD64 
Linux between binaries compiled with the Gnu and Intel compiler suites 
(at least "out of the box"), with Intel in the winning seat.


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