In article <MPG.1539782b51913029898ad@news.povray.org>, 
jam### [at] ntlworldcom (Jamie Davison) wrote:

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

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