Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> 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++.
> 

The standard makefile for PoV does not optimise for any particular
version of 
the x86 so adding a -mpentiumpro might be a good thing to do, it might
add some
extra speed due to the specification to (e)gcc that it's safe to do some
things,
that "normal" pentiums doesn't understand.

note, I haven't done this myself, but it should be safe, since we are
using -O6.

/Peter Toneby

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