Thanks for answer.
I appreciate it
Ed
Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellNO-SPAMnet> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 May 1999 09:57:04 -0500, "Ed Downing"
> <dow### [at] spamlessgtenet> wrote:
>
> >Has anyone heard if the POVRAY team is going to release a version with
the
> >SSE or 3DNow instruction sets enabled?
>
>   Ed, in keeping with a portable rendering engine code, POV-Ray
> doesn't include enhancements to a specific processor. Any enhancements
> for a cpu have to come with the compiler used for each operating
> system. This is not to say that these things *couldn't* be written,
> just that the resulting code would no longer be truly cross-platform,
> negating one of the main objectives of the POV-Team.
> --
> Alan
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