With balcony.pov, yet another file with radiosity.  I'm doing this between
reading messages.

3.6.2   512x384 No AA 232.6
3.6.2   512x384 AA .3 ?

3.7.b35   512x384 No AA 330.0
3.7.b35   512x384 AA .3 ?

3.7.b35 SSE2 512x384 No AA 320.64
3.7.b35 SSE2 512x384 AA .3 705.87

I'm not sure how to read this information.  3.6.2 single thread is simple enough
but I don't understand the 3.7 multi thread numbers yet.

3.6.2 512x384 No AA

Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours  3 minutes 51 seconds (231 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours  3 minutes 53 seconds (233 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 3.23 seconds, user 229.37 seconds, total 232.60 seconds
Render averaged 845.27 PPS over 196608 pixels

3.7.b35 SSE2 512x384 No AA

Render Time:
  Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0.506 seconds)
              using 7 thread(s) with 1.480 CPU-seconds total
  Radiosity Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  8 seconds (8.537 seconds)
              using 16 thread(s) with 44.720 CPU-seconds total
  Trace Time:       0 hours  1 minutes 10 seconds (70.321 seconds)
              using 4 thread(s) with 270.940 CPU-seconds total
POV-Ray finished
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CPU time used: kernel 1.45 seconds, user 319.19 seconds, total 320.64 seconds.
Elapsed time 85.30 seconds, CPU vs elapsed time ratio 3.76.
Render averaged 2304.95 PPS (613.17 PPS CPU time) over 196608 pixels.
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One thing that stands out is that 3.6.2 states 845.27 PPS (pixels per second?)
and 3.7 states 2304.95 PPS, three time as many but 87 seconds slower.

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