mpan3
Nov-24-09	BF

Built without GameEngine, OpenCollada and International and media support (no FFMPEG and Audio).  This is a 'lite' version of Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 that is as fast at rendering as humanly possible.

Built with ICC11, Runs on all AMD+Intel Processors.  Please test and report performance increase!

Build made by Mike

It took me a while because as oppose to just turning on every single optimization flag, I took the time to profile the binary.

Profiling is another way to increase performance by optimizing the binary for ‘realworld use’.  See, when a compiler links all the source files, it has no idea which ones will really get used, and in what order.  So to train the compiler to be smarter about this, I first ran a instrumentation build of Blender through a couple of real world rendering tests, after a few hours of normal use, I got a performance database of how Blender actually gets used.  I then rebuilt Blender with this performance database as a guide, generating an optimized build that takes into account function call orders, data layout, etc…  Thanks to this awareness, the compiler can intelligently re-order the Bleneder binary so that all the related stuff goes together, so in a way, a profiled build of Blender can almost anticipate what you are going to do before you do it :D