[Bf-committers] Cycles performance

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

It's probably more compiler dependent than OS-dependent. Visual studio
does not compile the render kernel as well as gcc. I've been
developing with gcc, so that has some influence, and it's probably
possible to tweak the code such that it compiles faster on visual
studio. Thread management could be related but last I checked
rendering threads were kept busy.

Brecht.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Mike Pan <mike.c.pan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to start another OS debate. But...
>
> I noticed that the performance of Cycles is very OS-dependent. With the old
> rendering engine, the OS can influence the rendering time by ~10%. But with
> Cycles, i am seeing a huge difference in performance between Windows and
> Linux/Mac, where Linux/Mac is often twice as fast.
>
> This cleaned up chart by
> Olivier<http://oenvoyage.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/blender-cycles-best-hardware-using-the-benchmark-spreadsheet-analysis/>clearly
> shows the discrepancy:
> http://oenvoyage.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/benchmark_win_linux.png
>
> I've done my own dual-boot test and the results as as follows:
>
> Cycles Render: (huge difference in render time)
> OS X: 3:27
> Win 7: 6:14
>
> Classic Render: (similar time, as expected)
> OS X: 1:24
> Win 7: 1:29
>
> Both OS are running natively (not under virtual machine), using the 64bit
> version of Blender 2.62.
>
> My question is, Is there any technical reason behind this? thread
> management? malloc overhead?
>
> Mike
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