Bill Hails wrote:
> Hi, I'm by no means a hardware expert, so please be
> gentle...
> 
> I'm sure many of us have browsed 
> http://www.haveland.com/index.htm?povbench/index.php
> and seen the (to me) astonishing 00:07:34 for a single
> Pentium Xeon on a Dell Precision 450 running Lunar Linux.
> By comparison my old Pentium III coppermine running
> SuSE 8.2 and a gcc-optimized PovRay 3.50c took 02:12:59.
> 

Well - the problem about these benchmark results is that there is no way 
to proove their validity - people could enter any time and no one would 
notice.

You can find some accurate results in the tests Nicolas made recently:

http://pov4grasp.free.fr/articles/fastpov1/

Christoph

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