"commodorejohn" <com### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > You could always use the Povray SDL. It's not that difficult. Also, you can pick
> > up an old and cheap core2 or athlon ii computer that is much faster than the
> > ppc970.
> I _could,_ yeah, but as Jim says, I find it easier to work with some kind of
> visual aid when designing scenes. Much simpler that way. I suppose I _could_ do
> the modelling in Moray/Win and export to POV scenes to be rendered on the Mac,
> but that seems unnecessarily awkward.
>
> As far as the PPC970 goes, the benchmarks I've seen actually put my particular
> G5 (2.5GHz, dual-core dual-CPU) about on par with a 3GHz Core 2 Duo, and while I
> _could_ get a nicer PC system, I don't really have a need to, as this is more
> than enough horsepower for my needs and I find x86 kind of gross under the hood
> anyway.
>
> Although I gather that I need to build POV-Ray 3.7 RC3 in order to have
> multi-core support, so I suppose I ought to do that...

PPC970 @ 2.5GHz faster than a 3 GHz core2? I find that hard to believe,
especially for Povray since core2 has a much more powerful FPU than the PPC970.
Have you done any Pov benchmarks?

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