Warp wrote:

>   I am wondering if it's a good idea to keep such slow version of povray
> for linux in www.povray.org if even gcc2 can do such good job at
> optimizing.
>   By the way, how is it possible that the official version is so slow? Was
> it compiled with no optimizations at all?-o

 Only -O2... but I think what make the great difference is using specific 
-mcpu and -march. Perhaps for the official distribution -O3 can be used, 
but not much more can be done, I think, except encouraging to compile the 
sources for your rendering palataform, perhaps with recommended flags. It's 
not that difficult at all: I myself have done it and I've no knowledge 
about c, c++, compilers and optimization. 

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org

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