I hope you don't mind this mostly OT post, but I thought you might
like some good news and comments for a change.

POV reports that the "Render" -> "Run Benchmark" menu option takes
about one hour to execute on a 2GHz Pentium 4 machine. Well, you might
want to revise that warning dialog, just before you release the final
version of POV-Ray. I just ran the official benchmark from that menu,
and it rendered in only 46 minutes, 26 seconds. 

The system I used has 256Megs of PC133 SDRAM (not DDR), runs WIN98se
(with virtual memory disabled), and is powered by an  Athlon XP 1600+,
which has an actual clock speed of 1.4 GHz, and is usually rated to
compare favorably with a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4, not the 2GHz Pentium 4
that POV-Ray cites as a reference. 

In other words, my "slower" machine just rendered your scene much
faster than your warning dialog led me to believe it would. It seems
that someone has done a good job of tweaking POV's speed, and I really
want to thank them for it. However, I still think you might want to
update that dialog box that warns about a 1 hour render, just before
POV becomes finalized. I'm hoping that by then, my render time drops
to a mere 1/2 hour.   :)


Thanks very much, and keep up the good work!

Glen

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