Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>   Perhaps the official binary should be updated to a more optimized version.
> (Perhaps the reason for the difference is that the official binary has been
> compiled with an older version of gcc, and the newer versions optimize
> better, even for the 386.)
>
>   It could also be considered if the official binary distribution could
> offer several binaries, compiled for different CPUs. For example, there
> could be an official binary that works even on a 386, one that requires
> at least an SSE-supporting Pentium, and a third that requires a x86-64 CPU.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

I was thinking the same thing about having different binaries for different
CPUs. OTOH, compiling 3.6 from source on Unix-like systems isn't really that
difficult. Perhaps we could also make a list of compiler options that produce
the fastest binary.

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