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  Re: ANNOUNCE: MacMegaPOV Universal Binary Beta 1 ready for download.  
From: Oleguer Vilella
Date: 3 Apr 2006 14:46:00
Message: <44316d68$1@news.povray.org>
Thank you very much Yvo for the ner version, it's works fine with Core Duo.

Regards,
Oleguer



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>
>> > On the older, non-Universal MacMegaPOV 1.2, render time was 173 
>> > seconds.
>> On what kind of machine, the same iMac Core Duo?
>>
>
> Yes, well, I did the tests on an iMac Core Duo 2Ghz 20". So the older
> version of MacMegaPOV had to use Rosetta.
>
> Some further observations:
>
> 1. I used the Activity Monitor to find that the new Universal beta will
> readily fill the capacity of one processor, and leave the other alone, so
> far as I could tell.
>
> 2. I finally dragged one of my own #include files to the POV 3.6 Include
> directory; and then I could test-render such scenes. They can be complex,
> involving thousands of spheres and cylinders and polygons. When I rendered
> such a scene, it seemed slow, as though the Universal was having a little
> trouble handling the #include data, as tho it were RAM-deficient or
> something.
>

>
> Russell
>
>
>


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