Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm
From: Peter W Boettcher <pwb+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed
Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:49:45 -0400
Message-ID: <wnoqXt_00YUo07A580@andrew.cmu.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing: 17-Jul-97 Re:
PVM PoV-Ray speed by Thomas Molesworth@trust. 
> animation in the shortest time possible, so I'm using PVM-POV with speed
> settings in the PVM config files set to appropriate values (taken from the
> Linux Bogomips rating), with no extra options compared to standard x-povray
        ^^^^^^^^
This is a bad idea.  Bogomips just measure how quickly a processor completes
an idle loop, used for timed delays.  It really has very little bearing
on real processor speed, especially FPU performance.  Try obtaining speed
values from POV render times.

Pete Boettcher
pwb@andrew.cmu.edu