Arttu Voutilainen <blizzara.REM0VE7H!S### [at] zbxtSP4MM3Rnet> wrote:
> It's not only the multithreading and compiler. I have only one core (AMD
> 64 3500+) and I compiled my 3.6 from source, with gcc and probalby -O2
> and -march=athlon64 (or w/e they are supposed to be). I think the
> 3.7-b29 was downloaded from povray.org. So, actually 3.6 should probably
> be faster as it was optimized for this CPU, but no - 3.7 is (at least
> for the "Eva Sails Away"-image) like ten times faster.


Optimization for the official 3.7 beta 29 binary is probably -O3, and it comes
optimized for 64 bit as well.

"ten times faster" sounds a bit unlikely to me however. How much time are we
talking about?

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