> Hi,
> 
>   I tried 3.7's speed with boring scene containing ten big concentric 
> glass spheres and 10x32x16 = 5120 small metal spheres. Time results for 
> rendering with +w640 +h480 +a are:
> 
> official 3.6.1: 44min 02s
> 3.7.0.beta14a, two threads: 2min 58s!
> 
> Machine has a dualcore Athlon 64, one thread rendering with 3.7 then may 
> take around 6min, which is still more than 7x faster than official 3.6.
> 
> Good work done by POV team :-)

Both versions of POV-Ray running under the same OS, with 64-bit 
versions, both running the same scene with the same INI file sittings? ;-)

(I presume they both render the same way too...?)

This, I would imagine, is to do with the new bounding system. I'm not 
sure, but I believe the latest beta has a switch to select which system 
to use...? You could perhaps try it both ways...

But anyway - more speed = goooood. ;-)

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