Could have something to do with not having to process and upon request
show all those pretty pictures! Yes the pictures are generated
regardless of whether you ever view them or not. Turns out it takes
about 10% of your processor to do that!!

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:33:44 +0000, Steve Smethurst
<steve@smethurst.org.uk> wrote:

Yes, I've seen about the same, so I've abandoned the SS version on the 
windoze machines I use.  I also see a substantial improvement is available 

>from running on Linux too.  I guess that the source code is identical so 

the improvement must be due to more efficient compiler and/or operating 
system.

Terry Pratchett wrote:

  I've been running the command line version on one machine for a day or
two and it seem to me there's a 10% improvement in speed.  Is that about
right, please?