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From: Vaclav Cermak
Subject: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 30 Aug 2006 10:14:19
Message: <44f59d3b@news.povray.org>
Hi,

   I tried 3.7's speed with boring scene containing ten big concentric 
glass spheres and 10x32x16 = 5120 small metal spheres. Time results for 
rendering with +w640 +h480 +a are:

official 3.6.1: 44min 02s
3.7.0.beta14a, two threads: 2min 58s!

Machine has a dualcore Athlon 64, one thread rendering with 3.7 then may 
take around 6min, which is still more than 7x faster than official 3.6.

Good work done by POV team :-)

OS is Fedora Core 4.

Best regards

Vaclav


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From: Orchid XP v3
Subject: Re: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 30 Aug 2006 13:58:13
Message: <44f5d1b5$1@news.povray.org>
> Hi,
> 
>   I tried 3.7's speed with boring scene containing ten big concentric 
> glass spheres and 10x32x16 = 5120 small metal spheres. Time results for 
> rendering with +w640 +h480 +a are:
> 
> official 3.6.1: 44min 02s
> 3.7.0.beta14a, two threads: 2min 58s!
> 
> Machine has a dualcore Athlon 64, one thread rendering with 3.7 then may 
> take around 6min, which is still more than 7x faster than official 3.6.
> 
> Good work done by POV team :-)

Both versions of POV-Ray running under the same OS, with 64-bit 
versions, both running the same scene with the same INI file sittings? ;-)

(I presume they both render the same way too...?)

This, I would imagine, is to do with the new bounding system. I'm not 
sure, but I believe the latest beta has a switch to select which system 
to use...? You could perhaps try it both ways...

But anyway - more speed = goooood. ;-)


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From: Vaclav Cermak
Subject: Re: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 31 Aug 2006 04:15:59
Message: <44f69abf$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> 
> Both versions of POV-Ray running under the same OS, with 64-bit 
> versions, both running the same scene with the same INI file sittings? ;-)
> 
> (I presume they both render the same way too...?)

Both are official 32bit versions, later I tried my own recompiled 3.6.1 
version for 64bit, and it was a bit faster (around 40min, don't remember 
exactly, I'll try it once more for more serious test ;-). The scene was 
the same, with the same settings and the same result, as you wrote ;-).

> 
> This, I would imagine, is to do with the new bounding system. I'm not 
> sure, but I believe the latest beta has a switch to select which system 
> to use...? You could perhaps try it both ways...

I think so, I'will try it ;-)

> 
> But anyway - more speed = goooood. ;-)


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From: NEWS
Subject: Re: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 4 Sep 2006 12:30:59
Message: <44fc54c3$1@news.povray.org>
maybe one day, people will not use beta version anymore ....





news:44f5d1b5$1@news.povray.org...
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I tried 3.7's speed with boring scene containing ten big concentric
> > glass spheres and 10x32x16 = 5120 small metal spheres. Time results for
> > rendering with +w640 +h480 +a are:
> >
> > official 3.6.1: 44min 02s
> > 3.7.0.beta14a, two threads: 2min 58s!
> >
> > Machine has a dualcore Athlon 64, one thread rendering with 3.7 then may
> > take around 6min, which is still more than 7x faster than official 3.6.
> >
> > Good work done by POV team :-)
>
> Both versions of POV-Ray running under the same OS, with 64-bit
> versions, both running the same scene with the same INI file sittings? ;-)
>
> (I presume they both render the same way too...?)
>
> This, I would imagine, is to do with the new bounding system. I'm not
> sure, but I believe the latest beta has a switch to select which system
> to use...? You could perhaps try it both ways...
>
> But anyway - more speed = goooood. ;-)


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From: Nicolas Calimet
Subject: Re: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 7 Sep 2006 09:13:26
Message: <45001af6$1@news.povray.org>
> maybe one day, people will not use beta version anymore ....

	???

	- NC


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From: Data Banks
Subject: Re: 3.7beta is FAAAST ;-)
Date: 12 Oct 2006 06:19:24
Message: <452e16ac@news.povray.org>
"NEWS" <pen### [at] caramailfr> wrote in message 
news:44fc54c3$1@news.povray.org...
> maybe one day, people will not use beta version anymore ....
>
>
>
I thought the whole idea of a beta was that people WOULD use it in order to 
test it & report any issues for correction, in order that the release 
version is better than it could otherwise have been. Am I missing something 
with this concept?


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