Wasn't it Simon Lemieux who wrote:

>In a not so <great> distant future??
>Look here I got a PII@433Mhz and I get One frame of Povray for a Minimum of "A
>few seconds" some time "A few minutes" and rarely but it happens "A few hours 
>or
>so..."
>The eye perceive about 30 frames per second...  which means you would have to
>render every frame in 1/30 seconds...  that is if you divide the speed of my
>computer (433) for let say a 1 second render of povray by (1/30) you get the
>computer of your dream and it's probably not a Pentium since it should have
>12990Mhz!!! (<currentSpee>/(1/<fps>)) = (433/(1/30)) = 12990Mhz!
>And a one second render of povray with my 433 isn't worth looking at...  You
>need at least a minute to about what you could get with OpenGL...
>(<dreamMhz>*<secs> = 12990Mhz * 60 = 779400Mhz....)
>
>This... is... INSANE!
>We won't be living in that dream future!

Be aware that the Sony Emotion Engine chip, under Linux, runs the POVRay
benchmark image (skyvase.pov) about 5 times faster than a 933 MHz
Pentium III, so that probably means that it's over 10 times faster than
your 433 MHz PII.

Sony are currently developing a workstation that runs a number (I don't
know how many) of Emotion Engine chips in parallel. Theoretically, such
a machine with 128 such chips would be capable of rendering scenes
nearly as complex as skyvase at 30 fps.

Such a workstation will be quite expensive when it first comes out, but
in a decade or two we'll have home computers that are this fast.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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