POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unofficial.patches: Poly is slower in megapov than in the official pov?: Re: Poly is slower in megapov than in the official pov?

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From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 14 Feb 2000 15:28:26
Message: <38a8656a@news.povray.org>

Nieminen Juha <war### [at] sarakerttunencstutfi> wrote...
>   I noticed that the poly primitive renders slower in megapov (0.4) than
> in the official povray (at least in this ultrasparc). I wrote about this
> in p.b.i. Why is this so?

Probably because the official version is a Watcom compile and MegaPov is a
MSVC++ compile, and they each do slightly different optimizations.

I think the source code is the same between the two.

-Nathan

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