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29 Jul 2024 02:25:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.7.beta.3 available  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 4 May 2005 09:21:17
Message: <4278cc4d$1@news.povray.org>
Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> Really fantastic improvement for pentium4!
> Any optimization for AMD too...?

The sse2 version should run well on AMD processors that support it. Or you
could run Windows XP 64 on the AMD64 and see it fly* ;-)

-- Chris

* apart from the fact that it has SSE2, the AMD64 also had additional
registers which allow for a parameter-passing in register scheme and more
efficient code in general. this improves performance noticably.


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