> > Yep, but IIRC the SH4 is a RISC chip, and I've never seen POV running at 
> > any great speed on a RISC chip (Caveat: My experience of POV on RISC 
> > machines is limited to Acorn Archimedes systems  which compared *Very* 
> > poorly, even to my old 486DX2/66, and so may not apply to the SH4)
> 
> The PowerPC processors are RISC, and while they aren't the top 
> performers, they are far better than you implied. My 350MHz G3 rendered 
> skyvase.pov at 640*480, using adaptive antialiasing with a threshold of 
> 0.3, in 1 minute 33 seconds.

Pretty good, My PII-300 manages 2'20" with method 1, and 3'3" with method 
2.

Oh, and please note I wasn't having a go at Macs, in fact I'd forgotten 
that they were RISC based while I wrote my previous post.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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