Stefan Viljoen wrote:

> mil01 spake:
> 
>> Thank you very much for all your informations. I will try them.
>> 
>> Stephan : so offcial binaries better than self compiled ( even with 64
>> bits ?)
>> But Ubuntu only provides povray 3.5...
> 
> In my experience. I've tried to compile 3.6 myself quite a few times, but
> never could get it to display. Don't know if you'll find official 64 bit
> binaries of 3.6, take a look at the Pov site. Plus, I've always ended up
> with binaries a bit larger than the official ones, and it seems a bit
> slower (probably due to my optimisation settings not being up to scratch),
> so yeah, I think using the official ones is the best. (At least for me).
> But then, I run the 32 bit ones, no idea what you're going to have to do
> for the 64 bit ones.
> 

Not very much. Considering that you have the right libs and such installed,
all you do is ./configure, make, make install and you're all set.
I run 64bit smp-Suse on top of an Athlon dual core and it works like a
charme. Beside speed the one major advantage is the memory limit. That has
vanished into the grey distance :)
-- 
Ger

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