Hello all,
    	Microsoft released build 1218 of the AMD64bit version of Windows, so 
I downloaded the 64bit version of POV 3.6 and gave her a run.  My machine 
is home built; AMD64 3200+, 1gb ram, dual-booting between 32 and 64 bit 
version of Windows XP Pro.  I ran the built-in benchmark under nearly 
identical conditions:

POV64bit:
Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes 36 seconds (36 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 24 minutes 53 seconds (1493 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 25 minutes 30 seconds (1530 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 0.98 seconds, user 1528.94 seconds, total 1529.92 
seconds
Render averaged 96.38 PPS over 147456 pixels

POV32bit:
Total Scene Processing Times
  Parse Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  1 seconds (1 seconds)
  Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes 44 seconds (44 seconds)
  Render Time:   0 hours 28 minutes 59 seconds (1739 seconds)
  Total Time:    0 hours 29 minutes 44 seconds (1784 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 0.48 seconds, user 1777.92 seconds, total 1778.41 
seconds
Render averaged 82.91 PPS over 147456 pixels

I have the full results if anyone is interested.  Overall I'm very 
pleased with the increased performance of POV64.  :)

Rich Allen

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