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To: fyodor_ who wrote (28715)	2/15/2001 9:39:43 PM
From: muzosi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

re Povray. it seems that the source for this program is readily available. Do I get this option with any Adobe, Microsoft or any other ISV app ? You need to read the rest of my post. I still believe that a vast majority of ISVs ship "blend" compiled apps with minor optimizations. Does anyone have a list of large ISVs which use Intel compiler in shipping apps ? Microsoft definitely doesn't use it. Or it didn't in a recent 2 year period ;-) Muzo

To: fyodor_ who wrote (28715)	2/15/2001 11:00:55 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

> Yes and no. Check out this PIII optimization (using VTune > 5.0!) of the popular ray-tracing program PoVRay I should note that I'm keeping a result database for povray (controllable by that guy who created the new binary) at jc-news.com And I've convinced (I think) a friend to try to do a K7 optimized povray binary. More on that later, I guess. I should note that povray 3.1 is said to be compiled with a rather old compiler that wasn't tuned for performance in the first place. This (the p3_pov binary, at least) isn't optimization -- it's undeoptimization!!! <g>     -JC