Jim Kress wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Also, people need to be aware that actual, real world rendering time (i.e.
> that time we humans actually live by) is wall clock time, not cpu time.  It
> serves no good purpose to tell users "I rendered that image in 37 cpu
> minutes" but not tell them "yeah it took 6 hours of real, human time"
> 

That's a quite extreme example, but it's simply not the point.  When a
render takes 6 hours while 5 other people are using that computer and 3
large programs are running in background, that's meaningless.  What counts
concerning comparison is the bare computation power needed.  

Christoph

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