"Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> "Steven Pigeon" <pig### [at] iroumontrealca> wrote in message
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> > Ok. Monitoring CPU time, 99.7% went to povray,
> > 0.3% to everything else (including ssl/ssh, the shell,
> > and top).
> >
> > I remember trying something with lots of radiosity
> > samples, and that the 2GHz linux machine rendered
> > the picture in about 20-30% more time than the
> > 1.7GHz windows box povray. Both ahtlon machines,
> > lots of ram (1G)
> >
> > Maybe it depends on what exactly is rendered?
> > I'll run a few test in a week or so, when I come back
> > from the Antilles (yay! vacations!)
>
> Hmmm... if you'd like to do some stats with a test scene, I can fire up my
> box and get you some stats on what I get over here. It might be an
> interesting excercise. What flavor of Linux are you running?
>
> PS: thanks for the desktop image! It makes a FANTASTIC DESKTOP IMAGE!!!
>
Ditto! Thanks!!

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