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28 Jul 2024 08:22:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Profiling of benchmark.pov  
From: Micha Riser
Date: 4 Sep 2002 14:32:25
Message: <3d7651b8@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3d7613b9@news.povray.org> , Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Can anybody give me some pointers about this rendertime-consuming thing?
> 
> If you have the Windows version of the source code you find specific
> optimizations for noise on P4s contributed by Intel.  There is very little
> left to optimize in the noise functions without changing the result :-(

This is probably "fasternoise.h" then. Why are these optimisation in the 
Windows version only? Is it assebler code? BTW is the official windows 
binary compiled with icc then?

- Micha


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