On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 11:44, Chris Mauritz wrote: > > On the very complex shots we cut render times by almost half. Most of > > our jobs are not very complex so the ratio evens out at about roughly > > a 10-20 percent gain. But the thing is that when the time comes to do > > something very complex comes it can be finished in say three days as > > opposed to five days. > > > Wow, that's useful information for me since some of these machines are > ultimately going to be put to use doing video media encoding of D1 and > HD video. I guess I'll have to run some tests too and see if we notice > similar speedups for media encoding. Does anyone have experience or benchmarks with the amd64 version of Sun Java vs. 32 bit (or 32-bit on an x86 vs. x86_64 Linux)? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com