In article <web.3f94c90681b0262316ba2f280@news.povray.org> , "Renderdog" 
<slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote:

> I'm surprised the IBM compiler didn't help more;

I think the last two results targeted the PowerPC in 64 bit mode rather than
32 bit mode.  With the plain 3.5 source code a noticeable loss of
performance can be expected this way, due to complex implementation
"effects" that cannot be noticed when targeting a 32 bit platform.

    Thorsten

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