Nicolas Calimet wrote:

> Quoting myself...
>>     I wonder how much time one could save when testing radiosity
>> parameters on a complex scene... Could you rerender the benchmark.pov
>> with radiosity turned on ? Will it still be 66% faster ?
> 
> Does your patch actually work with radiosity ?
> (maybe I should check myself, but it's time to sleep  :-) )
>
Okay, I switched on radiosity: 

Vanilla povray: 
  1439.17user 4.31system 24:51.09elapsed 96%CPU

Patched povray: 
  Traced 53415 (294 invisible) of 110592 pixels (48.3%).
  814.07user 2.72system 13:49.35elapsed 98%CPU

Wolfgang

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