In article <web.3ef7b756d6f1e9b3b8af7bc0@news.povray.org> , "hamburg" 
<ham### [at] fasharvardedu> wrote:

> Will there be a 64-bit optimized version of POV-Ray for the new PPC-970 (aka
> G5) based Macs out there?

The systems ship in *August*, they are not available yet, so don't expect
anything before the systems are actually available :-)

Not to mention that it isn't exactly feasible to buy a new computer for
US$3000 every year to optimise for the newest available system just to
develop a free program.  Not that I wouldn't really like to do so ;-)

> Is there 64-bit code for other architectures that could be ported?

There is nothing to be ported, you are on the wrong track that there is any
porting necessary.  You can compile the Unix version of POV-Ray on Mac OS X
just like on any other (64 bit) Unix system, but it requires some good
understanding of the implications, and for the plain 3.5 source code it
might require a patch to get radiosity to work as expected on any 64 bit
system, but that is all.

> It seems like you could get a fair bit of render speed increase as POV uses
> high-precision math.

It is to be expected, yes.

> Heck, will there be a version which supports Jaguar even

POV-Ray 3.5 runs just fine in Classic with the same performance.  If you are
looking for a version for Mac OS X 10.2 that runs under the Mac OS X GUI, go
to <http://mac.povray.org/download/macosx102.html>.

    Thorsten


PS: For a purely technical explanation, please read this instead:
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:32:14 +0200
From: "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
Newsgroups: povray.general
Subject: Re: PowerMac G5 implications
Message-ID: <3ef7f070$1@news.povray.org>
Xref: news.povray.org povray.general:47708

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