Edward Coffey wrote:
> 
> OK, so I'm pretty new to all this Linux jazz - but why is my newly-compiled
> X-POV so very much slower than POV-Win?  I compiled it with the
> optimisations appropriate for my machine, what can I do to make it faster?
> (Machine: Pentium-Pro 200MHz, 32Mb ram, RedHat Linux 6.0)

I've made the same observation.  My guess is that gcc doesn't optimize
for Pentium II as well as MSVC++ does.  POV-Win experienced a big
performance jump in moving from Watcom to MSVC++.

-Mark Gordon

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