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<h3>1.6.2 Benchmark Rendering Mode</h3>
<p>POV-Ray for Unix has a <em>built-in</em> version of the standard benchmark scene. In version 3.7 the <em>built-in</em> benchmark mode has been further modified to run without accessing <em>any</em> other distribution files, so now benchmarking can now be done with <em>just</em> the compiled executable.</p>
<p>To run this scene use the <code>--benchmark</code> command line option:</p>

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povray --be