On Tue 10 Dec, Neil wrote:
>
> I did some tests using Povray on various platforms, for my own interest
> (yes I have an interesting life, honest). I was ray tracing the 'Chess'
> textured chessboard scene.
...
> I've not tried this on any other systems, we have some SGs, VAXen, etc. but I
> think the above says it all about the ARM FP performance.

I have to disagree - it says it all about trig functions, that's all. If
the majority of people want to run ray-tracing programs then you're
absolutely right of course. My program has no trig in it at all, so the
benchmarks are completely different.

Presumably most people *do* just want to make ray traced images rather than
running hydrocodes etc (or in my case a financial dynamics model), which is
probably a good thing since the output is usually a lot prettier :-).

Thanks,   Ian.

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