Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm
From: thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk (Thomas Molesworth)
Reply-To: thomas@bass.almac.co.uk
Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed
Organization: Aztec Design Linux
Date: 24 Jul 1997 16:13:15 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn5tevor.1po.thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk>

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:49:45 -0400, Peter W Boettcher <pwb+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>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.

Good point - I'm now using the rendering times from skyvase.pov to calculate
the speed. Thanks.

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Thomas Molesworth            (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)