I have done further trials to speed povray up. You can expect a up to 10% 
faster gcc compile from me in the next few days. While GCC 3.1 uses MMX 
registers it does not actually use SIMD instructions :( One would have to 
add these by hand but this is quite tiring.

Currently I am testing Intel's compiler... and had to find that the POV-Ray 
coders did a great deal in making it impossible to auto-vecotrise the 
colour-operations for icc :/ 

- Micha
 

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