"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> You were using an Atom as a rendering platform? Ouch. Also, try running 3.6 on
> the PowerPC.
Yeah, that was strictly a case of "work with what you have," my computer budget
isn't very high. (I do also have a Pentium 4 box at work, but that's not so
great either, being an old DDR-233 machine with a pre-Extreme Edition P4.) As
for running the 3.6 benchmark on the G5, here's the results:

Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes 42 seconds (42 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 29 minutes 59 seconds (1799 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 30 minutes 42 seconds (1842 seconds)

> Actually, the N270 has hyperthreading, so 3.7 would show some gain with it.
Ah, interesting. Just for the sake of completeness, here's the results of the
3.7 benchmark on the Eee:

Parse Time: 0 hours  0 minutes  3 seconds (3.844 seconds)
              using 1 thread(s) with 3.796 CPU-seconds total
Photon Time: 0 hours  0 minutes 20 seconds (20.453 seconds)
              using 4 thread(s) with 20.468 CPU-seconds total
Trace Time: 2 hours 43 minutes  27 seconds (9807.313 seconds)
              using 1 thread(s) with 9787.750 CPU-seconds total
And a total time given of 9812.92 seconds.

And I noticed a note that the 3.6 and 3.7 benchmarks are actually different
enough to be incomparable, silly me. So, comparing apples to apples and oranges
to same: my G5 runs at 3.2x the speed of my Eee on the single-core 3.6
benchmark, and at 13.45x the speed on the multi-threaded 3.7 benchmark. Yow!

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