gRRosminet wrote:
> Hi everybody !
> 
> I just want to inform you that I have tried Intel C++ Compiler v8.0 on 
> povray ... the result is that the rendering time for the benchmark scene 
> is now 33 minutes with these options :
> CFLAGS = -O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -ip
> 
> before this, I used a povray compiled with gcc and "-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 
> -march=pentium4 -f...." options and the benchmark was rendered in 38 
> minutes

Recent tests we made with the 3.6 beta showed that the best performance 
with gcc is achieved with plain '-O3' and without additional '-f...' 
(the best -mcpu/-march flags probably depend on the processor).

Christoph

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