In article <5550E79E.6000709@interocitors.com>, Roger Kaufman <rogerkaufman@interocitors.com> writes:
I tried the first fractal on this page... View of a Distant Sea. The time given on this image was 4+ hours although they don't give what environment this is. That kind of time is reliably assumed to be on a Dos system in some way.
http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/fractals/fotd/2014/11/index.html
It's rendered on a unix machine using xfractint: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.0.0 stepping : 3 microcode : 0x1 cpu MHz : 2933.436 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 4 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx lm rep_good nopl pni vmx cx16 x2apic popcnt hypervisor lahf_lm vnmi ept bogomips : 5866.87 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: It only uses a single core; nothing in fractint uses multiple threads or cores. The unix code uses a "C" formula parser and no assembly code.
Resolution was 800x600x256 in both tests.
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