Shane Chambers wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     Does POV-RAY (any version, any platform) have support for Multiple
> Processors?  Are there any plans to support multiple processors, or
> distributed processing (say over a network).  Which Platform offers the
> fastest version of POV-RAY as far as render speeds go?
>
>     Hey, thanks in Advance,
>
>         -=(*) Shane Chambers (*)=-
>

This is a question I had been thinking about recently. In the docs they say
that getting povray to support multi-processors would be very difficult but
shouldn't this be an easy task as far as NT is concerned? Correct me if I'm
wrong(which is quite likely) but NT handles multiple processors by dividing
the current threads between them. So if you created one thread to trace all
even lines and one to trace all odd lines, the work should be pretty much
divided between the two processors(of course, you can generalize this to
more processors). This would be a relatively simple thing to program so I'm
wondering where the trouble lies. Any help?

                                                            Nick

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