Memory Management
Craig's assessment is very accurate. It apparently depends upon the bios
your system is using. With many systems, it doesn't matter if you use a
memory manager, but with some, the performance is greatly increased. I've
got a 486/50 here, and if you want to compare your speed to mine, give me a
timing on the oldcity.3ds file at 320×200 rendered to the NULL device. My
time on that with 2.01 (Phong/High/Camera View) is 28 seconds.
If you want to fool around with one of the memory managers, QEMM is
definitely the recommended one.
– G