I have been building blender with the precompiled libraries, i decided to build embree from source and use that, and the shaderball benchmark for cycles went from 1 minute 30 seconds to 1 minute 17, i tried installing blender from apt to check but it gives the error “not built with openimagedenoise” if the offical releases do use the precompiled libraries then this could potientally help with render time alot
You can find the exact versions of all libraries used over at
We do not always use the latest versions due to just there being no compelling reason to upgrade (ie upgrade only has changes in areas we do not rely on), incompatibilities elsewhere in the ecosystem (ie USD can’t really deal with anything other than TBB2020) , or commitments to do our best to play nice with other software in the eco system (ie adherence to the https://vfxplatform.com/)
but even for a dep like embree, where we generally are on or near latest, there’s many things that impact performance (ie compiler used, build options) it’s rarely just a case of “latest makes it go vrrrrrrrrrr!”
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