Micha Riser wrote:
> I have compiled a version of pov-ray with gcc 3.1, optimized for pentium 3 
> cpus. I have also applied a small patch which potentially increases 
> performance. If you want to try it out, you can get it from
> 
> http://www.povworld.org/povray/povray.bz2
> 
> I have not had time to do too much testing but it should be quite a bit 
> faster than the official binary. Please someone test against windows binary.
> 
> - Micha
> 

Bless you Micha! This worked like a charm. Comparison rendering times of
the balcony.pov sample scene are as follows:

Windows prebuilt binary = 505s
Linux prebuilt binary = 785s
Micha's p3 optimized binary = 444s

I'll do some more thorough testing with other scenes such as the
benchmark.pov one later today.

I don't have gcc 3.1 yet. Would the small patch you applied help
performance in a gcc 2.96 compiled version?

-Roz

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