Stefan Viljoen <rylan@ wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> What compiler optimization settings were used to compile the static Povray
> Linux binary?

The official binary was compiled using '-O3' and '-march=i586'.

> Is there a wiki/doc discussing this?

You will find some discussion on the matter of the effect of compiler 
optimization on POV-Ray performance in the past postings in these 
newsgroups.  On most x86 processors except the recent ones from Intel 
(pentium 4/pentium M) there is only minor improvement to be gained by 
use of more specific flags.  For Intel you should make sure you use 
'-march=pentium4'/'-march=pentium-m', the configure script handles this 
automatically.

Christoph

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