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From: Julian Brown <brown@cs.bris.ac.uk>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Mini ray tracer
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:48:58 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnd7d1d1.dg5.brown@panic.cs.bris.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504281037.46186.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On 2005-04-28, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>
> I just knocked up a little ray tracer in OCaml to test its viability for the 
> shootout:
>
>   http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/
>
> Here, it traces a 768^2 image of 66,430 spheres in 22.51s on a 1.2GHz 
> Athlon-Thunderbird and in 7.24s on a 1.8GHz Athlon 64.
>
> I've boiled it down to 94 LOC and posted it to the shootout mailing list.

Re:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/comparison.html

Interesting results, but it's kind of unfair to leave optimisation turned
off for g++! What kind of results do you get with, say, -O3 -ffast-math?

Cheers,

Julian


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-02 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28  9:37 Jon Harrop
2005-05-02 19:48 ` Julian Brown [this message]
2005-05-03 22:47   ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2005-05-04  6:24   ` Florian Hars
2005-05-04  7:27     ` Jon Harrop
2005-05-04 11:22       ` Jon Harrop
2005-06-13  2:46 Jon Harrop

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