What kind of speed difference are you seeing?  Are you sure your
comparing apples to apples?  i.e. different anti-aliasing levels on the
two OS's.  One thing I've noticed is that x display of X-pov can be very
slow,  especially if it must convert the preview image to a small color
pallet (8 or 16 bit color depth).   Try rendering with the display off
"-d".  If you see a significant speedup, this is your problem.  Make
sure you are in a true color video mode (24 bit or better)  or just skip
the preview and wait for the TGA file.

dave


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)

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