Hello,

there is a new (second), unofficial Version of POVRAY at
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/ for download. This Version is
optimized (with support from Intel) for PIII/Athlon and P4. And I'm deeply
impressed how immense the difference of rendertime between the non-optimized
and the optimized code is.

I use the POVRAY-File chess2.pov to compare CPU's at http://www.tabsnet.com/
since the Beginning of 2000. I hope, someone of you send me an Result of an
P4 running the new, optimized POVRAY-Version.

Here are some results of my Computer.
Rendertime in second with this Parameter :
-d -q9 +w800 +h600 +b1000 +r3 +a0.300 +v1 +ft -ichess2.pov

                                  Non-optimized  1'st optim.  2'nd optim.
Athlon 1200 MHz       542 sec.             436 sec.     300 sec.
Pentium III 667 MHz 1056 sec.            ----            689 sec.

Tilly

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