Lars Luthman wrote:
> 
> On the download page for POV-Ray for Windows, there is a link to a
> PVENGINE.EXE that is compiled with Visual C++ v6, and is optimized for
> Pentium II. Would this be faster than the original PVENGINE.EXE on a 450 MHz
> K6 II? Is there any point in downloading it?
> 
> --ll

 There might be compiler differences that will give you increased performance
even though you are not running a Pentium CPU. Both versions are optimized for
the pentium II architecture so the only real difference are compiler
specific.

 For example when the POV-Team first released the two different versions,
Watcom and MSVC6++, I did quite a bit of benchmark testing for them. My
own system only has a Pentium I processor but I realized significant
increases in performance for some types of POV-Ray operations when using
the MSVC6++ compile of the program. You can see the results of these tests
in the announcements group on this server. I would say there is a chance
that you will realize some improvement in performance just because the two
compilers have different optimizations.

 If you do decide to try it I would love to hear back from you whether you
notice any appreciable difference on the K6 processor.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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