I'm using daily build May15, the render time is 2 times higher than 1.7, does anyone have same issue?
I do, see my test on page 35.
And also please see my request to send the scene for internal performance testing on page 36 ;)
I've tried to archive my file, but I am getting IO errors on a number of cproxy objects. When I temporarily move the offending file (thinking that I can manually add it after the process), it trips up on another cproxy file. I tried this about 6 times before I stopped, because I was almost forgetting where they all went back to, and I have a couple hundred cproxy objects in my scene.
Have you experienced any issues with the archive feature not working because of cproxy objects? I guess I could do a test with just one of the offending objects in an empty scene and see what happens.