Warp wrote:
>   Try downloading the source and compiling it.
>   Due to a human mistake the official binary was compiled with no
> optimizations, which makes it awfully slow. (I don't know if an updated
> binary has already been made available.)
> 

I noticed Mark Gordon posted a note about placing a new Linux binary
up to address the I/O restriction problem. I downloaded it a little while
ago and ran benchmark.pov on it and it is a lot faster than the older
non-optimized version was. It's not as fast as can be achieved with
doing your own compile using various optimization settings but it's
a definite improvement. Thanks Mark :)

Times are as follows:

Windows prebuilt         = 25m 48s (1548s)
older Linux prebuilt     = 55m 40s (3340s)
new (8/7) Linux prebuilt = 34m 10s (2050s)
gcc3 athlon optimized    = 24m 19s (1459s)

-Roz

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