In article <3ad8cade@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  
wrote:

>   I once compiled a 64-bit compile of povray for UltraSparc using Sun's own
> cc compiler (full optimizations on, of course). I thought it would kick ass.
>   To my disappointment the 32-bit gcc compile was faster. It seems that
> gcc can optimize better even with non-native code (that is, code made for
> older sparcs).

Maybe it was mostly memory overhead caused by 64 bit integers and
pointers?


    Thorsten


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