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My current micro is a Pentium III.
According to the help screen I am currently running
version 3.1g.watcom.win32(Pentium II optimized).
I may have copied the subdirectory from a P-II machine.
If I reinstall on this P-III machine will the install package
install a different version?
How can I get/is there a version optimized for P-III?
Thanks in advance,
eddie
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"eddie" <Nul### [at] att net> wrote in message news:3c044fd3@news.povray.org...
> My current micro is a Pentium III.
>
> According to the help screen I am currently running
> version 3.1g.watcom.win32(Pentium II optimized).
>
> I may have copied the subdirectory from a P-II machine.
>
> If I reinstall on this P-III machine will the install package
> install a different version?
>
> How can I get/is there a version optimized for P-III?
You could try the current Beta of POV-Ray 3.5, although it will very soon be
updated to a new Beta version so better wait a couple days. It has a new
optimization for several types of CPU, Pentium three included.
See www.povray.org and the Download link.
--
text{ttf"arial","bob h",.1,0pigment{rgb 9}translate<-1,-.2,3>}
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eddie wrote in message <3c044fd3@news.povray.org>...
>My current micro is a Pentium III.
>
>According to the help screen I am currently running
>version 3.1g.watcom.win32(Pentium II optimized).
>
>I may have copied the subdirectory from a P-II machine.
>
>If I reinstall on this P-III machine will the install package
>install a different version?
>
>How can I get/is there a version optimized for P-III?
There are two official Windows versions of POV-Ray 3.1g: a Pentium-II
optimized version, and the regular version. The current beta of POV 3.5 is
optimized for a number of different processors simultaneously, resulting in
a significantly larger executable file, but one that is guaranteed to be
optimized for your processor, whatever it is.
--
Mark
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In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and a P-III.
I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do for a
P-II.
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#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}// - Warp -
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> In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and a
P-III.
> I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do for
a
> P-II.
it will make a slight difference, and on a 12 hour render everything helps
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Rick [Kitty5] <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote:
: it will make a slight difference, and on a 12 hour render everything helps
I don't think it's such a big difference if it takes 12 hours or 11 hours
and 40 minutes.
--
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}// - Warp -
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Warp wrote:
> In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and a P-III.
> I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do for a
> P-II.
I do know that in the Linux world the general advice is for people with P-III's
to get 386 binaries instead of P-II binaries, since the P-II optimizations used
will actually make it slower on the P-III than the 386 binary.
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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>
> > In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and a P-III.
> > I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do for a
> > P-II.
>
> I do know that in the Linux world the general advice is for people with P-III's
> to get 386 binaries instead of P-II binaries, since the P-II optimizations used
> will actually make it slower on the P-III than the 386 binary.
Hmmm... or is that Pentium on P-III that's the problem...?
--
Jon A. Cruz
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A world without string is Chaos. - R. Smuntz
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"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
news:3C053EC8.780DDC30@geocities.com...
> "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
>
> > Warp wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, AFAIK there isn't such a big difference between a P-II and
a P-III.
> > > I don't think a compiler could do much more for a P-III than it can do
for a
> > > P-II.
> >
> > I do know that in the Linux world the general advice is for people with
P-III's
> > to get 386 binaries instead of P-II binaries, since the P-II
optimizations used
> > will actually make it slower on the P-III than the 386 binary.
>
> Hmmm... or is that Pentium on P-III that's the problem...?
>
And the P4 would be more inclided to use 386, wouldn't it? At least, from
what I've read about it's structure, it sounds that way
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eddie wrote:
>
>
> How can I get/is there a version optimized for P-III?
>
Steven Schmitt have a pentium 3 and 4 optimized version of 3.1g, that is
significantly faster than the official compile - even on a pentium 2. Go
to:
http://students.washington.edu/sschmitt/pov/
/Ib
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