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From: Anthony D Baye
Date: 3 Jul 2014 21:35:00
Message: <web.53b6041f883c62ed77ac193c0@news.povray.org>

Just installed POV on my newly reanimated Mac G5 running Debian Wheezy.

Ran the benchmark and compared it against my install on my AMD Phenom II X6
running Mint 16

Mac G5 (Late 2005): Debian Wheezy -->
Render Time:
  Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  6 seconds (6.479 seconds)
              using 7 thread(s) with 7.400 CPU-seconds total
  Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
  Trace Time:       0 hours  1 minutes 49 seconds (109.803 seconds)
              using 4 thread(s) with 408.838 CPU-seconds total
povray: removing /tmp/pov24343.ini
povray: removing /tmp/pov24343.pov
POV-Ray finished

AMD Phenom II X6: Mint 16 "Petra" -->
Render Time:
  Photon Time:      0 hours  0 minutes  2 seconds (2.248 seconds)
              using 9 thread(s) with 2.591 CPU-seconds total
  Radiosity Time:   No radiosity
  Trace Time:       0 hours  3 minutes 29 seconds (209.132 seconds)
              using 6 thread(s) with 1232.369 CPU-seconds total
povray: removing /tmp/pov4747.ini
povray: removing /tmp/pov4747.pov
POV-Ray finished

Note: Parse time on the newer machine was faster by almost a whole second, but
Trace time was a bit more than twice as long.

Any ideas why this might be?

Regards,
A.D.B.

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