[Bf-committers] Strange rendering speed

[Bart]

I did some rendering speed tests on Win2K with a scene of five textured 
monkeys and color background (nothing more):

- in Blender itself took 41.70 sec.
- in background (commandline option -b) with normal task priority
	took 43.26
- and same above but highest task priority took 43.28

Questions:
- why is background rendering always slower then normal rendering ?
- why has canging the priority of the blender task no effect of
	rendering speed?
- Many people told me that Blender on Linux renders 2.5 times faster
	then on windows. True? And why?

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