POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Speed of 3.7 beta vs. 3.6 : Re: Speed of 3.7 beta vs. 3.6 Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:31:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speed of 3.7 beta vs. 3.6  
From: nemesis
Date: 26 Apr 2010 21:50:01
Message: <web.4bd641a725ef90b6afa462b20@news.povray.org>
"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Quite impressive. I just bought an Athlon II x4 (thank you AMD for maintaining
> backwards compatibility!) and wanted to see how fast thing thing was. One
> interesting test I did was to render a particular scene using 3.6 with 4
> instances vs. 3.7. I was expecting the render times to be about the same. Yet,
> 3.7 took half the time that 4 instances of 3.6 did. What's allowing this speed
> up?

if it's a scene with radiosity, clipka contributed a lot of high-caliber
optimizations and cleanups for this feature.


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