In article <386a0e59@news.povray.org>, "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> 
wrote:

>   The render time is obviously a video aspect to a machine, whereas the
> parse time is going to be the real guts of it, ie. the CPU and associated
> bus (and memory usage).

Nope, the video portions of the computer are not used in rendering. 
Rendering mostly tests the floating point performance of the 
microprocessor and the access speed of the RAM.
The only effect the video parts would have are in displaying the 
rendered image on the screen, and that is probably almost unnoticeable. 
And you can always turn the display off.


>   I would suggest leaving off the render part entirely for that matter, 
> at least by using the -d switch or Display=Off.  How about the file
> riting?  -f or Output_to_File=Off.

That doesn't turn the render off, just the display of the rendered 
image. The best way to minimize the render time interfering with the 
parse time would be to set a very small image size(like 4*4 pixels).

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Chris Huff
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Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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