maybe one day, people will not use beta version anymore ....





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> > 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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