POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Relative speed of MEGAPOV 1.0 and POVRAY 3.5 : Re: Relative speed of MEGAPOV 1.0 and POVRAY 3.5 Server Time
30 Jun 2024 20:00:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Relative speed of MEGAPOV 1.0 and POVRAY 3.5  
From: ABX
Date: 2 Jun 2003 04:36:59
Message: <j72mdv8v6nnf23ci8hu83blun7m30b3nd0@4ax.com>
On Sun,  1 Jun 2003 18:27:07 EDT, "anidon" <ani### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote:
> MEGAPOV1.0 now has many features useful for optical designers.  But should I
> be surprised that a 640x480 SkyVase requires 9sec in POV3.5  but takes
> 13sec. in MEGAPOV1.0.?

Hard to answer if you did not delivered much informations about your
environment. First of all comparing 9 secs to 13 secs is useles because there
could be a lot of short operations made by OS which could influence this
measurement. Second, different compiler was probably used (ie. using compilers
from Borland I get execution twice slower than 3.5). Third, more features cause
more memory for structures which cause different handling by memory caches in
processors (MP1.1 has some helpers for it). Fourth, different frontent could be
used (as for Macs). 

ABX


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