Dennis Clarke <dcl### [at] interlogcom> wrote:
 
  > I was surprised to find that the SUNOS version of POV-Ray was sadly
  > lacking in performance.

why were you surprised? are other applications not lacking in performance?

I find that my dinky, el-cheapo dual PPro outruns the 270Mhz UltraSparc-IIs
at the university by much more than the second CPU would account for. the
Sun keyboards are _very_ good (almost as good as the old PS/2 keyboard I
saved from the dumpster), but I'm decidedly underimpressed by what I've seen
of the rest of their hardware, and puzzled by how much people are still
willing to pay for that hardware.

you could try if UltraLinux speeds things up a bit, I hear it does for most
things. and use egcs to compile, it may help. but the bottom line remains as
you noted, a pentium-2 with a plain-vanilla povray will beat that $25k
workstation. if you multithread povray (which is going to be a *huge* task
btw), a dual pentium-2 with that version will probably still outrun that
Ultra.

Lodewijk
(if someone can enlighten me about the big deal with Sun hardware, gladly.
it's been puzzling me for a long time now)

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