Just did some testing, as I couldn't really believe the numbers from
my previous post myself. So I installed/compiled Povray 3.1g on one of
my servers, an old P120/32 and compared the render time of skyvase.pov
on this platform with a dual PII-350/256 using only one processor.

  Pentium 120:

Time For Parse:    0 hours  0 minutes   1.0 seconds (1 seconds)
Time For Trace:    0 hours  5 minutes  60.0 seconds (360 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  6 minutes   1.0 seconds (361 seconds)
360.01user 0.10system 6:00.23elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (266major+281minor)pagefaults 0swaps

  Pentium II-350:

Time For Trace:    0 hours  1 minutes  33.0 seconds (93 seconds)
    Total Time:    0 hours  1 minutes  33.0 seconds (93 seconds)
93.21user 0.12system 1:33.32elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (235major+282minor)pagefaults 0swaps

  Not nearly as bad as I made it sound. Thus if the dual PIII 700MHz
scales linearly, then it would roughly be 'worth' 15-16 P120's.

  Frank.

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