Dennis Clarke <dcl### [at] interlogcom> wrote:
: There must
: be a way to get POV-Ray to run a little faster.  What about a compile for the
: Sparc V9a processor?  A completely 64bit binary.  Would that make any real
: difference or just create a really large binary file.

  According to my tests (I haven't tested too extensively, though), compiling
povray to the V9 processor (with "cc -fast -xarch=v9") gives a 5-10% of speed
increase compared to an optimized gcc compile.
  As you guessed, the binary gets huge.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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