On Mon, 28 May 2001 12:11:03 +0200, Adrien Beau
<adr### [at] sycomorefr> wrote:

>Hi everybody!
>
>Several days ago, in the French POV-Ray newsgroup,
>Martin Depardieu, a newcommer to Linux, complained
>that he found the Linux POV-Ray version much slower
>than its Windows counterpart.

The Windows compile uses Pentium II-specific optimisations. On the K6
III at home it is about 20% slower than under Linux.

>Any ideas? What is your opinion about the compilation
>switches? Do you have a better combination? Or a
>better compiler?

OTOH, if you grab pgcc 2.97.2.1 and compile with most or all
Pentium-III optimizations, you will get a *significant* speed boost.
Tested.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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