On Monday 22 July 2002 11:53, Scott D. Boyd wrote:
So far, I've had two replies: 42.5 minutes on a 750 Mhz P3, in a DOS box on Win ME at 800 x 600 33 minutes on a 733 Mhz P3, in a DOS box on WIN XP at 640 X 480 PNL's render time was 33:50 (I checked his Website). Jonathan - Does the nasm assembler support in Xfractint 20.2.04 really make that much of a speed improvement, or is it something else?
When I read Jim's email today, I thought my computer (A 900 Mhz Athalon) would take *at least* 30 - 45 minutes to render the FOTD. I don't compare the render-time every day, but usually my computer takes about 1/3 to 1/2 the time to render the FOTD as does Jim's P200. To my surprise, it took only 8:44.56 today!
I re-loaded the image into Xfractint and compared the .par with what was in his email. Everything was the same. I'd like to hear from somebody with a Windows-based machine, at a comparable speed, to find out how long it took them to render today's FOTD. Could the difference be because Xfractint defaults to floating-point mode?
Scott