POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: 3.6 benchmark.pov: Re: 3.6 benchmark.pov

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 12 Jun 2004 03:30:02
Message: <caeb7k$71k$2@chho.imagico.de>

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
>>chalk it up to whatever you want (new compiler?, cleaned code?, ...?) but
>>the official 3.6 binary shaved 19 minutes off of benchmark.pov using the
>>benchmark.ini settings, compared to the official 3.5 binary with the same
>>official benchmark.pov/benchmark.ini. i never benchmarked pov before, so i
>>thought i'd do it before I installed 3.6.
> 
> 
> This was mentioned bfeore: You *cannot* compare the 3.5 and the 3.6
> becnhmark results due to anti-aliasing changes in POV-Ray 3.6!

For this speed difference the changes in photons are probably more 
important.

Christoph

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