On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:37:29 -0400, Mark Gordon wrote:
> I've uploaded 3.50c.  The binary is pretty good (fixed various performance
> issues, now building with gcc 3.2), and I/O restrictions are enabled in
> the binary but disabled in a usefully commented default
> /usr/local/etc/povray.conf that is installed.  Note that the install
> script won't clobber a pre-existing povray.conf, so you might want to
> clear yours out of the way if you have one.  This version includes a
> number of other bugfixes that caused build problems on Solaris and
> BSD-derived Unices.

Hi Mark, 

The new binary seems to be a great improvement on the original 3.5
verison, but it's still quite a bit slower than Micha Riser's 
custom compile for PIII (running here on a PII).

However I've come accross a major problem with Micha's version today, 
there are many scenes it won't render.  This is after clobbering the 
original binary that I d/l'd from Micha's site some time ago and 
getting another binary from the same site today, maybe I'll try the 
icc compile from there as that may have been the version I was using
before I did the 3.5c install. 

-- 
sphere{z*5,1pigment{rgb.5}finish{reflection.3specular.5}}box{<-50,-3,-50>
<50,-2,50>pigment{checker/*\__\\__/  * \_\\__*/scale 2}finish{ambient.7}}
light_source/*__\\__\\__\\__\\__\(    ~ )\__\\__\\__\\__\\*/{<2,5,1>*4,1} 
/*\\__\\__\\__\\__\\__\\__\\__\\__\~  -/__\\__\\__\\__\\__\\*//* Steve */

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