in news:web.3dab05c494823da42b597c920@news.povray.org LibraryMan wrote:

> Is there some built-in POV feature that would help me diagnose which
> elements of a scene are hogging all the render time? 
> [...]
> So let's keep it to generalities, shall we?

After a rendering POV-Ray generates some statistics; Ray-Shape 
intersection etc. These can give you a clue what is taking up the time.

Ingo

p.s. If somebody can, and is willing to, write a tutorial on the proper 
use and interpretation of these statistics and the histogram I would like 
to put it in the docs.

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