"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "jasonkrupert" <jas### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> > Identifier:      POV-Ray Mac 3.6
> > Version:         ??? (56721408)
> > Code Type:       PPC (Translated)
> > Parent Process:  launchd [63]
>
> > Translated Code Information:
> > Rosetta Version:  21.03
>
> Sorry in advance that I can't offer a solution.  Also, I suppose you can't
> benchmark something that won't run, but it might be better (if you care about
> speed) to run it natively by compiling the unix version yourself.  I found this
> very simple to do, and it looks like Rosetta performance is about 50% that of
> native performance.  I'm no expert on this, but only took a quick look at the
> following:
>
> http://www.geekpatrol.ca/2006/02/rosetta-performance/
>
> I could be completely wrong about performance, but this seems reasonable, even
> pretty good.
>
>  - Ricky

Triple R - Thank you for your follow-up.  What are you suggesting?

Are you suggesting to try to recompile POVRay on the OS 10.5 Intel machine and
see if it works?

Has this been tried successfully before?

Thanks.

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