On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:58:49 -0400, Felix Wiemann wrote:

> Sebastian H. wrote:
> 
>> I just compared the rendering speed of the official windows and linux
>> version of POV3.5 and got the very strage result that the linux version
>> takes the double amount of time (2.11x) the windows version needs to
>> render the benchmark scene (scenes/advanced).
> 
> Maybe you should make sure that the general POV-Ray configuration files
> are the same for both OS. What about copying povray.ini to
> $HOME/.povrayrc ?

Yes, default run-time settings are different between Windows and
Linux.  Maybe I should change that.

> Also note that they aren't compiled by the same compiler. The windows
> version may be much more optimized than the linux version. When sources
> are available you can compile your own version with gcc -O3 and some
> system or processor specific optimizations.
 
This binary was built with gcc.  I may release a binary built with the
Intel compiler at some point.

-Mark Gordon

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