I started taking screen shots to continue the discussion about CPU and 
compilers.

Instead, I ended up making a page of screen shots of bsac doing its 
network render thing...

http://www.buckosoft.com/bsac/flyby/


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In the Framelist, note the 17 minute M$ render times vs. 50 minute gcc 
times (vs. 176 minutes for the Celeron (sven...)). 3 to 1 increase for 
M$ [1].

I have another scene, looking at a tile floor of superellipsoids that M$ 
has a 10 to 1 speed increase! [2] My linux boxes hate that floor. :)

And then I have a similar scene (looking through glass at nothing too 
complicated) where M$ has only a 50% increase in speed, 34 minutes vs. 
43 minutes. [3]

I think what this means is, I've got to get my hands on the icc/Ubuntu 
compiler.
)

dik

[1] 3 to 1
http://www.buckosoft.com/tteoac/video/frames/ttho0705.png
[2] 10 to 1 for M$
http://www.buckosoft.com/tteoac/video/frames/ttko0524.png
[3] 50% increase
http://www.buckosoft.com/tteoac/video/frames/ttho2946.png

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