Hi All,

Just got back from IDF last night.  One of intel's booths had an Itanium 
system running linux, with the intent of highlighting intel's optimized 
compiler (vs standard gcc).  It caught my attention because the application 
they had compiled and were running in parallel was pov, rendering one of 
the metal texture preview scenes (coppers or brasses).  They had two 
instances of pov running parallel, one built with gcc, the other with the 
intel compiler.  The intel compile was running about 30% faster.  I didn't 
actually time the render, and I don't know what clock speed the itanium was 
running at, so I can't say much for the overall performance.  I just 
thought it was cool that they were using pov for their demo.

Ken

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