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From: Alain
Date: 30 Apr 2010 23:15:29
Message: <4bdb9cd1$1@news.povray.org>


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> This came about when I upgraded my CPU from an Athlon64 2.6 GHz to an Athlon II
> x4 2.8 GHz but found that the quad core was running things slower than the CPU
> it replaced! Turns out I needed to recompile POV-Ray for the new architecture.
> Well, here're the results I got with the benchmark.pov scene running version
> POV-Ray 3.6.1 on Debian 5.0 (x86-64). I'm rather surprised that the run time for
> restricting to x87 FP only is still pretty decent.
>
Take note that using 3.6.1, you can only use a single core, not the 4 
that are available.


Alain

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