Your implication is that GCC is inferior to what I'm guessing is Code
Warrior, which is not always the case. While 4% is not a significant
improvement, I've run these several times in the past and have gotten
consistent results.

Also, the measurements were for the benchmark scene using the supplied .ini
files

-John

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> jhu wrote:
> > I wouldn't say that for all cases. Here are the results for my PPC 750
> > machine running Mac OS X 10.4.8:
> >   Total Time:    4 hours 35 minutes 53 seconds (16553 seconds)
> >   Total Time:    4 hours 24 minutes 58 seconds (15898 seconds)
>
> You measured an incredible 4% difference with one scene, with an unknown
> configuration of POV-Ray. So what?
>
>  Thorsten

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