POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: Linux version is slower than windows version?: Re: Linux version is slower than windows version?

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From: Sebastian H
Date: 31 Jul 2002 07:03:38
Message: <3D47C4B2.1050108@web.de>

> 
> Yes, it's a very real effect.  I got 10 seconds to render Skyvase under
> Windows, and 24 seconds under Linux.  The reason for this is the
> different compilers used: in the Windows version, the compiler produced
> several versions of parts of the code, each version optimized for a
> different CPU.  This gives a larger but faster binary than the Linux
> compiler, which appears to have optimized for a generic x86 processor.
> 

Nice and not nice to know...
Would a for the specific (linux) system optimized compilation gain the 
speed of the windows bins?

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