Interesting.  What scene did you use to gather the stats?  How long did 
the parse and render take?

Peter D.

Brannon wrote:
> Here's a profile of the 3.6 windows code running the demo:
> 
> http://garrionent.com/pov/
> 
> I ran the profile to see if I could accelerate it with an FPGA module.
> Unfortunately, I don't see a whole lot of ways I could help. I could
> eliminate the multiplies and adds in MInvTransPoint and MInvTransDirection.
> The DMA overhead kills us, though, on such a small piece of data. It would
> be no improvement. What I need is a function similar to those that
> opperates on half a megabyte of data and performs about three times as many
> math operations. Those are the kind of functions I could really accelerate.
> 
>

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