POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Best Platform ? : Re: Best Platform ? Server Time
13 Aug 2024 23:22:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Best Platform ?  
From: Jon A  Cruz
Date: 27 Jul 1998 00:41:01
Message: <35BBF769.A95F909A@geocities.com>
Mikael Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> Nei### [at] kjopenglobalnetcouk wrote in message
> <35BAD03F.69A60413@kjopen.globalnet.co.uk>...
> >I mean
> >    one 333MHz CPU would render faster than
> >    two 300MHz CPU's    ?
> >
> >Neil
> >
> 
> At least on a WinNT machine, because it does not have native support for
> multi processing, and the
> POV-Ray code doesn't support it natively either (I think, someone correct me
> if I'm wrong).


Well, the POV-Ray code is not multithreaded, but NT will utilize both
processors for multi-threaded apps.


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