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To: Paul Engel who wrote (162659)	3/20/2002 9:46:22 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

That's the trouble with P4, it's slow unless it runs software with special patches, and the patches introduce bugs: This time out, we're using an updated version of Steve Schmitt's recompiled POV-Ray. Although there two flavors of recompiled POV-Ray, including one specifically optimized for the Pentium 4, we're only using the generic "PIII" version, which runs fine on both the Athlon and the Pentium 4. Unfortunately, some folks have reported getting buggy output from the P4-specific binary, so we'll have to skip it. tech-report.com Note that they didn't use the Athlon optimized binaries, which worked fine, but would have put P4 at a disadvantage. P4: slow unless patched, unreliable and fussy after the software "performance fixes."