But for those of us who don't know our way around source code, how easy
is it to find the file(s) to optimize, and make the appropriate
changes.  I'm not just a newbie to POV, I'm a total stranger in a
strange land when it comes to hacking.
Is "rolling my own" a realistic option, then?
--Mark W.

Roz wrote:
> 
> 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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