POV-Ray-Project wrote:
>  Hello,
>  We are students at the IIT, working on a project focousing on POV-Ray.
>  The project's goal is to optimize the open source code of POV-Ray to
> achieve a measurable speedup in rendering time - hopefully returning it to
> the open source community.

That's an ambitious project.  Note the most likely results are:

- no significant speedup.
- speedup at the cost of portability and maintainability of the code.
- improvements of particular algorithms (requiring profund knowledge of 
those fields) that result in speed up in some cases but no 
change/slowdown in others.

>  For that our project needs a benchmark - a representative file to render.
>  We know there is a built-in benchmark, but for our project we need a
> diffrent debug benchmark
>  a short one for mid-work purpouses, that would take LESS then a minute to
> render on a 3GHz computer.
> 
>  Since we know next to nothing about POV-Ray, we are approaching people from
> the POV-Ray community to recommend an apropriate benchmark file.

A scene that renders in less than a minute is not suited for 
benchmarking of any kind - if this is not obvious you should probably 
reconsider starting such a project. ;-)

PS: it would be a good idea to use a different identity for posting here.

Christoph

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