ZS vs HF

[rjlittlefield]

Following up on my comment about older machines...

I just now tested the midge stack on my 5-year-old Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. Time to completion was 17:13 (min:sec) with default parameters, versus 4:02 on my current Core 2 Quad. Turning off image caching, as suggested earlier, reduced that time to 14:15. I didn't record how long it took to set up that specimen & lighting, shoot the stack, and prepare the final image for posting, but I'm sure it was way more than 17 minutes. And since I can do something else while the computer is working, but all the other stuff takes continuous attention, the compute time becomes pretty much irrelevant in this case.

--Rik