Thorsten Froehlich's furious key-hammering produced this:
>> sphere scene (source below) in a second.  OTOH, my G4-733MHz (which
>> actually renders faster than the x86 when both platforms are using
>> MegaPOV) took over 15 seconds to render it.
>>
>> This is the scene I used.
>> light_source{<15,8,-25>rgb 1}sphere{z*5,1pigment{rgb 1}}
> 
> With preview on and with preemptive threading (call background rendering in
> 3.51) off, right?

Yes -- default options, basically.  I wasn't feeling too adventurous when I did
that quick test. :)

> Note that the time it takes to draw the preview remains constant no matter
> what scene complexity.  Hence, it will still be 15 seconds for a 10 minute
> scene, at which point 15 seconds added time for preview don't matter.

Oh, alright.  So you're saying that with preview off that scene would have
probably rendered as fast as my Wintel rendered it?  Sounds plausible to me.

Heh, I still have to try 3.5.1...

> That
> is why one does not benchmark with scenes that take one second to render,
> because that ain't a benchmark, but a bananamark ;-)

Bananamark...hehe, I like that. ;)

I'll have to run benchmark.pov on both of my systems to see which one is truly
a better POV-platform (with preview off, of course!).  I honestly never thought
that preview being on made that much of a difference!

-- 
/*^*/light_source{100*<-5,2,-5>2}#macro I(i,n)#while(strlen(i)>=n)#local A=asc(
substr(i,n,1));#local a=asc(substr(i,n+1,1));cylinder{<div(A,8)-12,mod(A,8)-4,4
><div(a,8)-12,mod(a,8)-4,4>,0.1pigment{rgb z}}#local n=n+2;#end#end I("ScUe[]"1
/*<*/)I("mkmtlttk"1)//@_$#!,:<"Thhis polysig brought to you by Ian Burgmyer :)"

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