POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: POVRay Dreamcast port: Re: POVRay Dreamcast port

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Apr 2001 18:48:46
Message: <3acf994e$1@news.povray.org>

In article <chrishuff-88B0A4.17280307042001@news.povray.org> , Chris 
Huff <chr### [at] maccom>  wrote:

> The Dreamcast's processor runs at 200MHz, it should render skyvase.pov
> in far less than 3 hours, even with an unoptimized compiler.

Maybe (I do not know about the SH) the FPU only supports
single-precision floating point numbers in hardware?  If the compiler is
then forced to generate code for it you would get such a slowdown...

     Thorsten

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