Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> POV-Ray 3.6 is part of the newly-released SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark suite. The
> SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark is the next generation of the widely used industry
> standard CPU benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor and memory
> subsystem as well as compiler development.
>
> This is good news for POV-Ray users, since, over time, processor and system
> vendors tend to optimize their technology to perform well when running the
> problems in the SPEC benchmark. This can lead to better performance of
> POV-Ray on newly released processors. Additionally, compiler vendors
> frequently use SPEC to validate their compilers; thus users of POV-Ray on
> platforms not officially supported are, in the medium to long term, less
> likely to encounter problems, therefore extending overall portability of POV-Ray.
>
>   http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/CFP2006/
>
> -- Chris

Great!! anything that speeds up my renders has got to be a good thing. Shame
the test doesn't include isosurfaces and focal blur with atmospheric media
;-)

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