One way to confirm this is to compile the unix version on Mac OS X. Then
compare the rendering time against the Mac OS X version that's provided on
the download page.

-John

Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>
>   Beats me how I could test for myself if such slowdown can be fixed or
> not, regardless of how many macs I have.
>
>   Apparently you know the internal workings of MacOS X so well that you
> know that it cannot be fixed? How? Do you have access to the source code
> or developement documentation or something? I would just be interested
> in knowing what is it that makes it impossible to fix.
>
>   (Ah, but now that I think about this conversation a bit, I think there's
> a confusion. When I said "Didn't they fix it?" I meant "Didn't Apple fix
> MacOS X so that the newer versions are not as slow as the older ones?".
> I think you thought I meant "can't POV-Ray for Mac be fixed to work
> faster?")
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

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