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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (60443)	10/26/2001 1:47:46 PM
From: jcholewa	Respond to of 275872

> P.S. I'd be interested in seeing the results of those > Povray optimizations. I hear that the Pentium 4 can do > much better with rendering when the application has > certain pathological instruction streams removed and > replaced with more efficient code. Well, any modern processor will get a pretty strong boost going to a more modern compiler. In general, though, the relative boosts will be pretty similar. We will see if P4 gains any interesting amounts of boostage a la instruction extensions. This will, of course, depend on the intelligence of the compiler (remember, scheduling isn't a walk in the park -- if it was, then P4 would be much, much faster in, for instance, Maya 4) and on the pressure of other areas, such as on the decode stage[s].