POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Compiling stuff : Re: Compiling stuff Server Time
5 Nov 2024 09:26:40 EST (-0500)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 8 Dec 2008 20:25:15
Message: <493dc8fb$1@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> (It probably contains drivers for every piece of hardware known to
>> mankind, even if you don't need it. And I'll bet even if you disable
>> those parts, it still has to process that part of the source code to
>> decide whether or not to compile it...)
> 
> No, it doesn't :(. That's one reason why Windows is still much more
> widely used in workstations and especially in gaming computers.

	Yeah, but I think Linux beats Windows hands down for legacy support. I
believe Linux surpassed Windows a while ago for overall hardware support.

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