> Yes and no.
> Give me a ratio old version <-> new version and i'll give you a scene
> that shows a better ratio :-).
> This is a problem with benchmarks or measurements generally, you have
> to have a close look at the boundary conditions.
> IMHO benchmark.pov can be used to benchmark the hardware it is running
> on but i wouldn't use it to profile/compare different versions of
> POV-Ray on the same hardware.
>
> Andreas

I agree. Just because a patch does not appreciably speed up benchmark.pov 
does not mean that the patch isn't worthwhile. Why is benchmark.pov 
arbitrarily declared to be the ideal or typical POV-Ray scene, anyway? 
With so many possibilities of doing things in POV-Ray, is there even such 
a thing as "the typical scene" ?


George


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