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  Re: Linux version is slower than windows version?  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 1 Aug 2002 19:10:58
Message: <pan.2002.08.01.23.14.55.657268.1550@povray.org>
On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 04:08:46 -0400, Roz wrote:

> I think what bothered me about Mark's statement is that it sounded like
> there's no point trying to provide an optimized Unix binary because
> it'll never be faster than the Windows version anyway. I realize Mark's
> very busy and it's been really nice to have a Unix binary version to use
> prior to the source code being released. Hopefully compiling from source
> will boost that rendering speed up!
> 
> -Roz
 
Based on the numbers I've seen, I'm starting to rethink this.  I'm still
running Red Hat 7.2, though, so building with gcc 3.1 isn't going to be
trivial for me.  I'll look into it, though.

-Mark Gordon


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