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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Optimized for Pentium III
Date: 29 Nov 2001 15:53:18
Message: <3c06a03d@news.povray.org>
Data <not@all> wrote:
: And the P4 would be more inclided to use 386, wouldn't it? At least, from
: what I've read about it's structure, it sounds that way

  AFAIK P4 is slow to execute *any* previous code. You need to optimize
specifically for P4 in order to get some speed (and even then you don't
get all the speed you _could_ get with those GHzs).

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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From: Ian Burgmyer
Subject: Re: Optimized for Pentium III
Date: 28 Mar 2002 18:20:15
Message: <3ca3a52f$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3c04c4e7@news.povray.org...
>   In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and a
P-III.
> I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do for
a
> P-II.

IIRC, the biggest difference is SSI (I think that's the acronym).  I think
it's similar to 3DNow!.

--
#macro S(M)cylinder{E(M)<A,C,5>,<B,D,5>,.1,15}#end#macro E(P)#if(div(P,16)
)#declare B=-1;#declare D=-2;#end#if(div(P,32))#declare A=1;#declare C=0;#
end#if(div(P,64))#declare B=-1;#declare D=0;#end#if(div(P,128))#declare A=
1;#declare C=2;#end#end blob{S(192)S(96)S(48)pigment{rgb 8*z}} /** Ian **/


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