Geez!  Thanks.  I thought I was going nuts when I tried to compare the two
files and they looked the same to me.  The system that I ran my test on was also
running a database server with about a Gig of data indexed on it.  I figured
that it was a dual CPU system so no harm in getting one CPU to do some work for
a while.  I ended up with a time that was slow by just a little bit.  There must
be a way to get POV-Ray to run a little faster.  What about a compile for the
Sparc V9a processor?  A completely 64bit binary.  Would that make any real
difference or just create a really large binary file.

Dennis

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> In article <3b269c75$1@news.povray.org> , "Tilly" <web### [at] tabsnetde>
> wrote:
> 
> > But, be carefull. There are different
> > chess2.pov in the UNIX and Win Distribution (The Unix-Version is faster). I
> > used the Windows-Version for the Benchmark.
> 
> No, they are actually the same if you get them from POV-Ray 3.1.  however,
> some Linux distributions (at least until recently) used to come with POV-Ray
> 3.02 which included a slightly different version of the scene.
> 
>      Thorsten
> 
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