On 27 Oct 2002 10:36:22 -0500, Steve wrote:
 
> 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. 
> 

I found that the binary that's the quickest and works properly with all 
pov files is the one optimised for athlon. 

I got this in my results at the end of the trace:

Total Time:    0 hours 36 minutes  60.0 seconds (2220 seconds)
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I presume that this but is still in 3.5c though I havn't read the change
log. 

-- 
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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