On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:46:06 -0400, "Stephan Vogt"
<sno### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:

>There seems to be a lot of interest in NT judging by the amount of messages.
>Since you decided not to make a NT only version,  I am wondering if you
>could make
>the rendering engine multi-threaded which would not cause any problems in
>Win95/98 but would run almost twice as fast on a 2 CPU NT platform.  Is the
>programming difficult to do?  I don't know how many of the POVRay fans own
>that kind of machine.  It seems to be getting a lot cheaper these days.  I
>have one
>myself.

I've looked at this, and sad to say, it would be a horrible job to get
it to run multithreaded, due to the proliferation of global variables
used in unsavory ways.  You're better off just running two copies of
POVRay and using a script or batch file of some kind to coordinate the
rendering.

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