Adrian wrote:
>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.

  Well, when some years ago I migrated to Linux, I haven't done it
*only* for speed reasons. When I tested some of my *real* scenes it
showed to be at least 5% faster on most scenes (with the official Linux
binaries and RH 6.2 standard) than the windows version, and practically
the same as the DOS version. But I've decided to use Linux for
raytracing mainly bcos I wanted stability. And that's what I got: lots
of stability. The best example is my last machine, and AMD 1.2Ghz: Linux
runs on it without any problem, but windows even refuses to install
(suwin errors). So, I don't care if it is faster, bcos it's not what I
look for... :)

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Jaime Vives Piqueres

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