As a comparison, here is the same scene done with radiosity. I used a sample
count of 800 and a recursion limit of 2. The render took about 7 hours.

I tried reusing the radiosity data from the cache it created for another render,
but the render time didn't come down dramatically (a bit over two hours for the
second render I think).

Cheers,
Edouard.

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