In article <39063634.A2080345@209software.com>, Bryan Valencia 
<bry### [at] 209softwarecom> wrote:

> Yeah, but the software gets bigger and slower as the PCS do, and we 
> all add more detail to our renders until it gets too slow.

But the available computing power is growing faster than the amount POV 
uses.(I'm not talking about other software, just the class of software 
POV-Ray is in.) You render typical scenes faster now than you would have 
done "back then", even when using the latest power-hungry features. 
There are no where near as many 5-day renders as there used to be, and 
most people consider 5 hours slow. Also, more efficient algorithms are 
being discovered("differential ray tracing", for example, could be a 
good replacement for the blurred reflection patch, and could be a lot 
faster.).


> I'd be interested to run whatever version of POV was out during the 
> 80286 days on my current machine.  I know I'd lose a lot of features, 
> but I'd just like to see.

It would run faster if you recompiled it with a recent compiler(there 
have been a lot of optimization improvements since then), and maybe a 
little faster even if you didn't.

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